{"id":284,"date":"2018-08-16T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/?p=284"},"modified":"2018-08-16T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:27:42","slug":"develop-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/2018\/08\/16\/develop-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"Develop Friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and friendship can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help you better cope with stress<\/li>\n<li>Decrease your risk of disease<\/li>\n<li>Increase your chance of living longer by 50 percent<\/li>\n<li>Help you fight a cold<\/li>\n<li>Ease body aches and pains<\/li>\n<li>Improve your coping skills<\/li>\n<li>Increase your energy \u2013 yep, that\u2019s right!<\/li>\n<li>Make you laugh<\/li>\n<li>Boost your happiness<\/li>\n<li>Let you feel connected, appreciated, and loved<\/li>\n<li>Influence your eating and exercise habits (Which friend would help you improve your eating vs. encourage you to order another round of nachos? Which friend would take a walk\/go to a Zumba class with you?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Studies find that being face to face with friends boosts the positive effects even more. Not having close friends can be as detrimental as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Go ahead\u2026celebrate your friends and make some new ones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends are valuable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}