{"id":87945,"date":"2026-04-18T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87945"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:24:45","slug":"the-death-of-the-living-room-its-hard-to-invite-people-over-not-everyone-wants-to-sit-on-a-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/the-death-of-the-living-room-its-hard-to-invite-people-over-not-everyone-wants-to-sit-on-a-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of the living room: \u2018It\u2019s hard to invite people over \u2013 not everyone wants to sit on a bed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1RbBRU.img?w=534&amp;h=414&amp;m=6&amp;x=1378&amp;y=964&amp;s=77&amp;d=77\" alt=\"A family spending quality time together in their lounge, 1957. Photograph: Harold M Lambert\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Without a living room, your world becomes quite small,\u201d says Georgie, a 27-year-old climbing and outdoor instructor.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/home-and-garden\/the-death-of-the-living-room-it-s-hard-to-invite-people-over-not-everyone-wants-to-sit-on-a-bed\/ar-AA1RbDKg?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e35930b112438197e33199c1e3e400&amp;ei=34\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u2018Without a living room, your world becomes quite small,\u201d says Georgie, a 27-year-old climbing and outdoor instructor.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Rooms-to-let.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87946,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87945\/revisions\/87946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}