{"id":12708,"date":"2023-08-02T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2023-08-01T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T02:52:47","slug":"chatting-that-connected-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/chatting-that-connected-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatting . . . that connected feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hands.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12709\" width=\"186\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hands.jpg 608w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hands-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Photo by Priscilla Du Preez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChatting with a stranger makes you happy. Connecting with another person, even briefly\u2014like talking to the barista brewing your coffee or a random seatmate on the train home from work\u2014gives you a feeling of belonging and improves your mood.\u201d \u2014 \u00a0\u201cYour Body\u2019s Trying to Tell You\u201d May 2016 Reader\u2019s Digest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Priscilla Du Preez \u201cChatting with a stranger makes you happy. Connecting with another person, even briefly\u2014like talking to the barista brewing your coffee or a random seatmate on the train home from work\u2014gives you a feeling of belonging and improves your mood.\u201d \u2014 \u00a0\u201cYour Body\u2019s Trying to Tell You\u201d May 2016 Reader\u2019s Digest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3iY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}