{"id":2951,"date":"2010-02-12T01:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2010-02-12T01:37:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:37:59","slug":"hospitility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/hospitility\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospit(i)lity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Visit<\/p>\n

\"Granma:<\/p>\n

\"Granma:<\/p>\n

\"Thus,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"Last<\/p>\n

\"Give<\/p>\n

\"Candy<\/p>\n

\"Have<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"Why<\/p>\n

\"Forced<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I’m sure most of you have been through the complicated process of “diafeh” (=offering a snack for your guests). Especially with older people. They assume you’re too shy to accept or that you would think they aren’t generous\/hospitable enough if they accept your refusal from the first (or tenth) time. But what if yes meant yes and no meant no? Wouldn’t that be easier?<\/p>\n

So, now that I have this out of my system, here’s a song for you my darlings! Enjoy, and have a great weekend! \ud83d\ude42 [Madonna’s True Blue! 1986, from the year I was born]<\/p>\n

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[Sorry the player doesn’t show in RSS feeds \ud83d\ude41 I can’t upload music in here as my connection is TERRIBLE – yes, I knew today that Lebanon has the 5th worst connection in the whole wide world! Isn’t that amazing?]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure most of you have been through the complicated process of “diafeh” (=offering a snack for your guests). Especially with older people. They assume you’re too shy to accept or that you would think they aren’t generous\/hospitable enough if they accept your refusal from the first (or tenth) time. But what if yes meant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1388,1383,1387,1389,1384,1386,523,574,1385,1142],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-stories","tag-bag","tag-candy","tag-exaggeration","tag-force","tag-fruity","tag-generosity","tag-granma","tag-hospitality","tag-insistance","tag-sunglasses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}