{"id":468,"date":"2020-11-20T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2021-03-22T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:09:56","slug":"national-call-a-friend-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"National Call a Friend Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;Chase&nbsp;Jack&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who have&nbsp;you have&nbsp;been meaning to get back in touch with? Do you have a friend that lives far away from&nbsp;you?&nbsp;&nbsp;Are&nbsp;not&nbsp;your thumbs&nbsp;sore from just&nbsp;texting.&nbsp;Furthermore,&nbsp;have you ever accidentally dialed the wrong number?&nbsp;&nbsp;Well&nbsp;what if that wrong number is the right&nbsp;number? December 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;is National Call a Friend day, so what a perfect time to reconnect.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;is a day to&nbsp;reconnect&nbsp;and&nbsp;ultimately reach&nbsp;out&nbsp;to those friendships&nbsp;that&nbsp;may have&nbsp;faded out. One can&nbsp;reach out to&nbsp;also&nbsp;make&nbsp;a&nbsp;new&nbsp;friend.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is&nbsp;crazy how many people spend Christmas alone.&nbsp;The average household will see five people seated around the dining table adorning paper hats \u2013 but one in 10 will be making room for 10 or more guests.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many&nbsp;will&nbsp;have&nbsp;a&nbsp;large get&nbsp;together&nbsp;and celebration.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr. Veronesi,&nbsp;<\/strong>was&nbsp;interviewed&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>he said that he has a lot of people he knows,&nbsp;but only has a few close friends.&nbsp;He feels that as teenagers, most&nbsp;won\u2019t&nbsp;really know who&nbsp;their \u201creal friends\u201d&nbsp;are&nbsp;until&nbsp;we get&nbsp;older&nbsp;and&nbsp;when&nbsp;perspectives&nbsp;will&nbsp;change. He also spoke about&nbsp;how at&nbsp;Lenape&nbsp;students&nbsp;made so many new friends simply because this school has so many other schools coming to it&nbsp;and&nbsp;that&nbsp;has forced&nbsp;Lenape students&nbsp;to get along&nbsp;with a variety of new people. As the&nbsp;student&nbsp;body gets older and even&nbsp;now,&nbsp;most&nbsp;will&nbsp;lose&nbsp;touch with&nbsp;some&nbsp;friends.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s&nbsp;take the time to get back in touch with some of our&nbsp;long-lost&nbsp;friends.&nbsp;Let&#8217;s&nbsp;make time during this holiday season to&nbsp;make&nbsp;new friends&nbsp;and&nbsp;with anybody really it might just make someone&#8217;s&nbsp;day.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/call-a-friend-day.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470\" width=\"276\" height=\"364\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Chase&nbsp;Jack&nbsp;&nbsp; Who have&nbsp;you have&nbsp;been meaning to get back in touch with? Do you have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}