{"id":28520,"date":"2023-03-07T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28520"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:50:24","slug":"so-just-how-important-are-our-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28520","title":{"rendered":"So, just how important are our friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>&#8220;Building your life around close friendships rather than family or romance is a joyous and necessary act of rebellion, and governments should put in place &#8216;friendship ministries&#8217; to radically rethink the way society is organised, a key French philosopher has argued.\n<p>\nGeoffroy de Lagasnerie this week publishes a manifesto for friendship, <a href=\"https:\/\/editions.flammarion.com\/3\/9782080420015\">&#8216;3 Une Aspiration au Dehors&#8217;<\/a>, detailing his close friendship with two other writers, Didier Eribon and \u00c9douard Louis.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the opening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/mar\/06\/french-philosopher-geoffroy-de-lagasnerie-friendships\">a short article<\/a> in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221; and made me think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My sister lives in Leicester and my brother lives in Manchester. My (second) marriage broke up seven years ago. So, by default, I&#8217;ve had to focus on friendships over family or relationship. This was especially true during lockdown but, more generally, my friends sustain me each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that there is a reason why, in all countries and cultures, women live longer than men in spite of generally having harder lives.  I think that women are better at building and sustaining social networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literally, our friends keep us alive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Building your life around close friendships rather than family or romance is a joyous and necessary act of rebellion, and governments should put in place &#8216;friendship ministries&#8217; to radically rethink the way society is organised, a key French philosopher has argued. Geoffroy de Lagasnerie this week publishes a manifesto for friendship, &#8216;3 Une Aspiration au [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28525,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions\/28525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}