{"id":5826,"date":"2016-11-30T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/javafurniture.com\/news\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2016-11-30T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:50:35","slug":"arranging-furniture-to-encourage-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/arranging-furniture-to-encourage-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arranging furniture to encourage conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Tannen&#8217;s advice on how to create a living room that encourages people to talk to one another:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sofas and chairs should face one another in a circular arrangement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Place furniture close enough so people can have a relaxed conversation without straining to hear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Cut the background music so everyone can concentrate on what is being said. Says Tannen: &#8220;Music should be listened to. If it&#8217;s in the background of a conversation, it gets in the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Have some simple wood chairs that can be pulled close for a private chat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; If you are counting the number of seats in your living room, <em>take into account that a three-cushion sofa might attract only two sitters.<\/em> Nobody likes being squeezed in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212; J.K.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : www.washingtonpost.com<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Tannen&#8217;s advice on how to create a living room that encourages people to talk to one another: &#8212; Sofas and chairs should face one another in a circular arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}