{"id":1153,"date":"2005-09-19T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2005-09-22T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T15:58:56","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was replying to an entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~laurakain\">one of Laura&#8217;s journals<\/a> when it hit me that one of the things I really miss about Columbus is having community around me.  The dorms and the apartments at the seminary breed their own communities and the apartments are kind of like a compound in itself &#8212; we had BBQ&#8217;s in the summer and we&#8217;d babysit for each other during the year.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I hated the apartment I lived in &#8212; white cinderblock walls, no kitchen space, a gross bathroom, inadequate closet space, and no ventilation.  I did, however, love that we always had people to help us move (it&#8217;s what you do during the summers in seminary) and there were always people to meet for coffee.  I guess that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve missed most of all.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that we actually do end up in either an apartment complex or at least a close knit place when we get to Billings.  I mean, I&#8217;d really love to have people with whom I can have coffee and share life who are my age and in my position&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was replying to an entry on one of Laura&#8217;s journals when it hit me that one of the things I really miss about Columbus is having community around me. The dorms and the apartments at the seminary breed their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-iB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}