{"id":1526,"date":"2009-04-27T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2009-04-27T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:06:13","slug":"repost-thank-you-friendswell-what-are-friends-for-a-longer-life-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/27\/repost-thank-you-friendswell-what-are-friends-for-a-longer-life-nytimescom\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost: Thank You Friends:Well &#8211; What Are Friends For? A Longer Life &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople with stronger <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Friendship network\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friendship_network\">friendship networks<\/a> feel like there is someone they can turn to,\u201d said <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Karen people\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karen_people\">Karen<\/a> A. Roberto, director of the center for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gerontology\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerontology\">gerontology<\/a> at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.225,-80.425&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=37.225,-80.425%20%28Virginia%20Polytechnic%20Institute%20and%20State%20University%29&amp;t=h\">Virginia Tech<\/a>. \u201cFriendship is an undervalued resource. The consistent message of these studies is that friends make your life better.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/21\/health\/21well.html?em\">Well &#8211; What Are Friends For? A Longer Life &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/7770088e-39f0-400c-b047-37ff778d0d77\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople with stronger friendship networks feel like there is someone they can turn to,\u201d said Karen A. Roberto, director of the center for gerontology at Virginia Tech. \u201cFriendship is an undervalued resource. The consistent message of these studies is that friends make your life better.\u201d via Well &#8211; What Are Friends For? A Longer Life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/27\/repost-thank-you-friendswell-what-are-friends-for-a-longer-life-nytimescom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost: Thank You Friends:Well &#8211; What Are Friends For? A Longer Life &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[477,602,791,1190,1391,1455,1483,1484],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-best-sentence","tag-education","tag-friendship","tag-karen-a-roberto","tag-relationships","tag-the-new-york-times-company","tag-united-states","tag-virginia-polytechnic-institute-and-state-university","tag-virginia-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}