{"id":1623,"date":"2015-03-22T23:21:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T03:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2015-03-24T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:22:30","slug":"the-power-of-a-meal-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"The Power of a Meal Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 81<\/p>\n<p>There are many studies that point to the benefits of having family meals together regularly.\u00a0 Among other things, they provide a sense of unity.\u00a0 Its a means of instilling common values across generations.\u00a0 They provide a place for strengthening relationships through communication, as well as enjoying each others company in a relaxed setting.\u00a0 Our family shares dinner together most nights, and we would not trade the world for this.<\/p>\n<p>I have recently been reminded of the value extending beyond family.\u00a0 We cater lunch for our entire division at work each Friday.\u00a0 This helps build and strengthen friendships and comradery.\u00a0 It also fosters trust and community.\u00a0 Similarly, our tech and music teams share meals between worship services at church.\u00a0 The church is kind enough to cater meals, knowing that we volunteer for long stretches of time on Sundays.\u00a0 This is not only convenient, but it affords opportunities to meet others and get to know them.\u00a0 Otherwise, we would not likely take the time given our hectic pace and schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Meal sharing is the ultimate form of hospitality and generosity, and is often the best ice breaker.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150322_006.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1624\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150322_006-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Meal in Green Room\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150322_006-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150322_006.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meal in Green Room<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X100s, 23mm f\/2.0, 1\/25 sec @ f\/4.0, ISO3200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 81 There are many studies that point to the benefits of having family meals together regularly.\u00a0 Among other things, they provide a sense of unity.\u00a0 Its a means of instilling common values across generations.\u00a0 They provide a place for strengthening relationships through communication, as well as enjoying each others company in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,10,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}