{"id":872,"date":"2014-10-07T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=872"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:55:04","slug":"small-home-hospitality-a-guest-post-at-incourage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2014\/10\/07\/small-home-hospitality-a-guest-post-at-incourage\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Home Hospitality: A Guest Post at (in)courage!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I’m writing for (in)courage <\/a>about being hospitable in a small home–our small home!<\/p>\n

\"Ann<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the start of the article. I would love for you to join me at (in)courage<\/a>!<\/p>\n

We have a small home \u2014 a split-level condo with two bedrooms and a galley kitchen that never seems to have enough counter space.<\/strong>\u00a0I know that in most places in the world, our home size would be considered normal, or perhaps even large. But here in affluent suburbia where we live, our square footage is, comparatively, on the compact end of things.<\/p>\n

Any time we have more than a handful of people over \u2014 such as this last weekend for my daughter\u2019s first birthday party \u2014 we run out of seating quickly. Often, guests start spilling onto the stairs, sitting on steps when the couches and chairs are full.<\/p>\n

My tendency, in the past, was to worry about the lack of space, to try and fix things by giving up my seat or finding another stool. Because when I saw people sitting on the stairs, my hospitality button got pushed: I didn\u2019t feel like I could provide what my guests needed. I never want anyone to feel uncomfortable in my home \u2014 physically or socially \u2014 and\u00a0I was concerned that our small home would make people feel cramped and unwelcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Today, I’m writing for (in)courage about being hospitable in a small home–our small home! Here is the start of the article. I would love for you to join me at (in)courage! We have a small home \u2014 a split-level condo with two bedrooms and a galley kitchen that never seems to have enough counter space.\u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873,"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":[4,21,5,23],"tags":[49,61,34,222,592,8,106,219,218,52,221,220,593],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-god","category-guest-post","category-life","category-writing","tag-christian-marriage","tag-christianity","tag-faith","tag-friendship-2","tag-god","tag-gods-faithfulness","tag-guest-post-2","tag-hospitality","tag-incourage","tag-jesus","tag-kindness","tag-small-home","tag-writing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ann-Swindell-DailyGraceHospitality.jpg?fit=652%2C434&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}