{"id":81736,"date":"2019-05-22T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81736"},"modified":"2019-05-21T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:30:45","slug":"swns-why-the-average-american-hasnt-made-a-new-friend-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81736","title":{"rendered":"(SWNS) Why the average American hasn\u2019t made a new friend in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-five percent of adults say they find it difficult to make new friends, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>A new study into the social dynamics of 2,000 Americans revealed that the average American hasn\u2019t made a new friend in five years.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it seems for many that popularity hits its peak at age 23, and for 36 percent, it peaks even before age 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/05\/09\/why-the-average-american-hasnt-made-a-new-friend-in-5-years\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fascinating article on the nature of friendships today, for many people: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XgO6nAHlVV\">https:\/\/t.co\/XgO6nAHlVV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Russ Ramsey (@russramsey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/russramsey\/status\/1130482044553912320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-five percent of adults say they find it difficult to make new friends, according to new research. A new study into the social dynamics of 2,000 Americans revealed that the average American hasn\u2019t made a new friend in five years.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81736\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,175,94,168,177,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81739,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81736\/revisions\/81739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}