{"id":2428,"date":"2016-07-02T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2016-07-02T07:06:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T21:06:51","slug":"bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"About friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a society where love for other people, gender-unspecific, was accepted, even desirable. Strong bonds between adults were simply tolerated, allowed, and sought after.<\/p>\n<p>I now live in a culture where such strong bonds are only allowed between family members, more or less extended. That makes for a totally different life. It creates a closed-circle thinking, and the opposite of a free and open community, where members would be allowed to share emotions across conceptual ties.<\/p>\n<p>I miss having the chance to explore freely other thought worlds, ideas, cultures. I feel a bit robbed actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a society where love for other people, gender-unspecific, was accepted, even desirable. Strong bonds between adults were simply tolerated, allowed, and sought after. I now live in a culture where such strong bonds are only allowed between family members, more or less extended. That makes for a totally different life. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}