{"id":233896,"date":"2020-05-12T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=233896"},"modified":"2020-05-14T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:00:41","slug":"how-to-make-small-talk-with-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/12\/how-to-make-small-talk-with-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Small Talk with Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/TgG9wjZe?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my primary strength: making small talk with strangers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why small talk with strangers?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, I like to talk with strangers. Why? It is fun! It is challenging. I have the &#8216;gift of gab&#8217; which means I can talk quickly on my feet. Some ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Talk like a child! Don&#8217;t strive to be serious. <\/li><li>Ask a lot of questions<\/li><li>Ask what is on your mind and don&#8217;t censor yourself<\/li><li>Joke around a lot<\/li><li>Take a social risk by even engaging a stranger in conversation! <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After this, everything else will follow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my primary strength: making small talk with strangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/street-photography-starter-kit-version-4.gif?fit=654%2C336&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233898,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233896\/revisions\/233898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}