{"id":2009,"date":"2012-03-21T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:54:21","slug":"36524f-5-guests-coming-need-foodspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36524f-5-guests-coming-need-foodspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Stamps: Ping-Pong Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Days-365+25-ping-pong-clutter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2010\" title=\"Days 365+25 ping pong clutter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Days-365+25-ping-pong-clutter-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong>This weekend we will have 11 guests (Pig Town Fling dancers) staying at our home. This presents two conundrums:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Do we make them eat on $4.50\/day or do we say \u201cEat only from the left side of the refrigerator, the right side is OUR food.\u201d It certainly doesn\u2019t seem hospitable to force our Lenten practice on them, besides most of the dinners will be eaten out. We\u2019ve decided to buy whatever is necessary to offer them enough food while they are here. I think that is what Jesus would do.<\/li>\n<li>Where do they sleep? We have three extra bedrooms since our adult children are sprung and this will take care of most of the guests. Still, we have four who will need to sleep in our finished basement. We\u2019ve not had this many in the basement before and we worried about crowding them. I decided to clear off the Ping-Pong table which serves as my unofficial extra file cabinet to make some extra room. This is not directly a food issue but certainly fits under the general purpose of this blog \u2013 living more simply (and getting rid of clutter).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we will have 11 guests (Pig Town Fling dancers) staying at our home. This presents two conundrums: Do we make them eat on $4.50\/day or do we say \u201cEat only from the left side of the refrigerator, the right side is OUR food.\u201d It certainly doesn\u2019t seem hospitable to force our Lenten practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-stamp-challenge","tag-organizing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}