{"id":69897,"date":"2018-06-19T22:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T02:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/first-dates-the-awkward-moments-and-how-to-navigate-them\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T02:15:25","slug":"first-dates-the-awkward-moments-and-how-to-navigate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/first-dates-the-awkward-moments-and-how-to-navigate-them\/","title":{"rendered":"First Dates: The Awkward Moments and How to Navigate Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>First Dates: The Awkward Moments and How to Navigate Them<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Raise your hand and say \u201cI\u201d if you\u2019ve ever experienced an awkward moment on a first date? Guarantee, you just put up your hand, or at least cringed with the thought of your last groan inducing date moment. But that\u2019s the beauty of first dates isn\u2019t it? 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