{"id":2641,"date":"2019-07-29T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2019-07-29T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:20:28","slug":"international-day-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/International-Day-of-Friendship-pic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2642\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/International-Day-of-Friendship-pic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/International-Day-of-Friendship-pic-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/International-Day-of-Friendship-pic-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/International-Day-of-Friendship-pic-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/International-Day-of-Friendship-pic-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/International-Day-of-Friendship-pic.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing better than a close friend!\u00a0 They are someone with whom you can share life\u2019s greatest celebrations, as well as life\u2019s deepest heartaches and disappointments.\u00a0 A friend is also the one who you look forward to spending your free time with, because they know the most about you and love you anyway.\u00a0 On this day to celebrate friendship, take the time to let that special friend know how they have enriched your life!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of friendships, consider this.\u00a0 <strong>Diversity<\/strong> in friendship can open up new experiences.\u00a0 We are all comfortable in our own little clicks; therefore, we tend to deprive ourselves of the unknown blessings that might be right in front of us.<\/p>\n<p>People different from us are truly not as different as you think.\u00a0 You can build friendships on mutual talking points like children, marriage, and work to begin conversation with like interests. \u00a0A different ethnicity or culture from your own can definitely change your prejudices and preconceived ideas.\u00a0 You become more tolerant of other people, and able to work better in team environments.\u00a0 You become open to understand each other as opposed to judging each other.<\/p>\n<p>When you befriend someone different from you, you learn their traditions. If their families live abroad, you learn of their country.\u00a0 This may open up travel plans to explore their country for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>We should dare to break out of our comfort zones and get to know someone who is different.\u00a0 It just might lead to celebrating this day with another great friend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing better than a close friend!\u00a0 They are someone with whom you can share life\u2019s greatest celebrations, as well as life\u2019s deepest heartaches and disappointments.\u00a0 A friend is also the one who you look forward to spending your free time with, because they know the most about you and love you anyway.\u00a0 On this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}