{"id":3415,"date":"2025-09-24T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/work-benches-being-used-to-help-isolated-men-make-friends\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:04:51","slug":"work-benches-being-used-to-help-isolated-men-make-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/work-benches-being-used-to-help-isolated-men-make-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Work benches being used to help isolated men make friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-24 12:04:49<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Work benches are helping isolated men to make friends.<BR><br \/>\nThe Men&#8217;s Sheds Association &#8211; community workshops where men can create converse and connect &#8211; has begun its task, called Mission: Shoulder to Shoulder, to create friendships in its workshops.<BR><br \/>\nTV presenter Timmy Mallett, 69, is helping the movement to make a friendship bench at Black Park Shed in Buckinghamshire.<BR><br \/>\nHe is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: &#8220;If you put two men in a room and ask them to have a deep and meaningful conversation, they might scarper.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But if you put them at a work bench, shoulder to shoulder, you often get work-bench buddies.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They might not fix much, but those conversations can change a life.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-24 12:04:49 Work benches are helping isolated men to make friends. The Men&#8217;s Sheds Association &#8211; community workshops where men can create converse and connect &#8211; has begun its task,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}