{"id":1519,"date":"2018-04-13T20:45:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2018-04-13T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:45:22","slug":"i-hate-small-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"I hate small talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGenerally you have to lead with it, sometimes you don&#8217;t (my absolute favourite conversations), but on the whole I just can&#8217;t be bothered with it for too long anymore. Particularly with someone I would regard as more than an acquaintance. This is definitely one of my &#8216;things&#8217; as I&#8217;m getting old. It feels like life is far too short for just exchanging niceties; I want to know the good stuff: what makes you happy, angry, sad, motivated, dream, wreckless, inspired, skip, worry&#8230;. anything! Talk about things that are real, not things that you think people want to hear or will be impressed by. The best relationships I think are formed out of these sorts of conversations, and my absolute ambition is to have as many of both as humanly possible. I reckon it&#8217;s actually how humans make things possible. I love it!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally you have to lead with it, sometimes you don&#8217;t (my absolute favourite conversations), but on the whole I just can&#8217;t be bothered with it for too long anymore. Particularly with someone I would regard as more than an acquaintance. This is definitely one of my &#8216;things&#8217; as I&#8217;m getting old. It feels like life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","tag-small-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}