{"id":2338,"date":"2025-01-07T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:35:55","slug":"coping-with-the-post-pandemic-surge-in-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/coping-with-the-post-pandemic-surge-in-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping with the Post-Pandemic Surge in Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the pandemic in 2020, Americans have been staying home in record numbers, and the result, says U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, is an \u201cepidemic of loneliness and isolation.\u201d \u00a0But, thanks to initiatives like <em>All One Thing<\/em>, <em>Project Gather<\/em>,\u00a0and the documentary <em>Join or Die<\/em>, that epidemic may be ending.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to the Human Doom Loop<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2024\/11\/remote-work-life-loneliness-isolation-human-doom-loop-zoom-virtual.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2024\/11\/remote-work-life-loneliness-isolation-human-doom-loop-zoom-virtual.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780593736227\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the pandemic in 2020, Americans have been staying home in record numbers, and the result, says U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, is an \u201cepidemic of loneliness and isolation.\u201d \u00a0But, thanks to initiatives like All One Thing, Project Gather,\u00a0and the documentary Join or Die, that epidemic may be ending. Welcome to the Human Doom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/coping-with-the-post-pandemic-surge-in-loneliness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Coping with the Post-Pandemic Surge in Loneliness&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,53,55,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-global","category-health","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}