I can confirm that this works using a child theme for those needing more featured pages on their site. Exactly what I needed. Thank you sacredpath!
On a separate note, any idea on how to assign each featured post to it’s own css class? For example, to be able to control the background color of each post instead of the alternating white and grey background colors? I’m looking to use this theme for a single-page (parallax style) site. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!