{"id":13681,"date":"2021-04-19T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2021-04-19T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T19:19:07","slug":"a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019m in the America<\/em> spring books issue:<\/p>\n

As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to build lives where friendship is central, they are also rediscovering the sacrifices common to deep friendships. A new book, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close<\/em><\/strong>, by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, gives one of the best defenses of sacrificial friendship I have read in a long time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to build lives where friendship is central, they are also rediscovering the sacrifices common to deep friendships. A new book, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, by Aminatou Sow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,77,18,57],"class_list":["post-13681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-friendship","tag-prepare-for-life-in-capitalist-america-play-class-struggle-the-game","tag-race","tag-sweet-smell-of-success"],"yoast_head":"\nA New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I'm in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I'm in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-19T19:19:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html\",\"name\":\"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-19T19:19:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-19T19:19:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415\"},\"description\":\"I'm in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/\",\"name\":\"Eve Tushnet\",\"description\":\"Conservatism reborn in twisted sisterhood\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415\",\"name\":\"Eve Tushnet\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Eve Tushnet\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/author\/evetushnet\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice","description":"I'm in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice","og_description":"I'm in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html","og_site_name":"Eve Tushnet","article_published_time":"2021-04-19T19:19:07+00:00","author":"Eve Tushnet","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Eve Tushnet"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html","name":"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-04-19T19:19:07+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-19T19:19:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415"},"description":"I'm in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our concept of friendship has become and look for ways to","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/04\/a-new-extra-millennial-book-about-friendship-as-a-site-of-sacrifice.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/","name":"Eve Tushnet","description":"Conservatism reborn in twisted sisterhood","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415","name":"Eve Tushnet","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Eve Tushnet"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/author\/evetushnet"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}