{"id":371,"date":"2014-04-01T06:24:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=371"},"modified":"2014-03-31T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:11:40","slug":"guest-post-at-incourage-friendship-a-piece-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2014\/04\/01\/guest-post-at-incourage-friendship-a-piece-of-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post at (in)courage: Friendship&#8230;A Piece of Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.incourage.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ann-Swindell_cupcake.jpg?resize=614%2C406\" width=\"614\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to be a guest blogger today over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incourage.me\/?p=156993\">(in)courage<\/a>, sharing about how a piece of cake helped me know Jesus more fully through friendship.<\/p>\n<p><em>I have spent most of my life being the pursuer in female friendships. In junior high and high school, I was the one who always invited girlfriends over to my house. In college, I was the one who invited other women to coffee dates. Even now, as a mom, I am the one in our circle of friends who plans the get-togethers most of the time. The other day, when I mentioned scheduling another dinner, one of my friends laughingly responded, \u201cI was just thinking to myself \u2014 Ann needs to organize another girl\u2019s night!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I don\u2019t mind it. Really. I\u2019m outgoing, proactive, social.\u00a0<strong>I like bringing women together and helping to create a space in which we can rest, reflect, and laugh together.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s important. It doesn\u2019t happen enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But sometimes I forget how special it feels to be pursued by other women in friendship. Last week, I was reminded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article <a href=\" http:\/\/www.incourage.me\/?p=156993\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m excited to be a guest blogger today over at (in)courage, sharing about how a piece of cake helped me know Jesus more fully through friendship. I have spent most of my life being the pursuer in female friendships. In junior high and high school, I was the one who always invited girlfriends over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendship","category-god","category-guest-post","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}