{"id":1392,"date":"2010-08-17T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2010-08-17T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T08:40:49","slug":"you-know-youve-settled-into-europe-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/you-know-youve-settled-into-europe-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you&#8217;ve settled into Europe when&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;you are stunned each time that somebody thinks your Visa has expired because it is dated 04\/09\/2010. <\/p>\n<p>Culture consists, in part, of the customs that you take for granted. So we know that we&#8217;re adapting to European culture (or Western European or French-inflected or whatever) when we&#8217;re surprised by how things are done in the good ole USA. Some more examples: You know you&#8217;ve settled into a European state of mind when&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You find it unspeakably rude when, at a restaurant, your server brings you the check before you ask for it.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Of course it&#8217;s a topless beach. Why not?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>You are uncomfortable when someone <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chip_and_PIN\">takes your credit card<\/a> out of your sight.<\/li>\n<li>You get frustrated at having to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3039619.stm\">sign a bill<\/a> for small purchases with your credit card.<\/li>\n<li>You are excited to find a parking space within a quarter-mile of your destination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We think of these little differences several times a week, and we&#8217;ll post more in the future. Guests of the B&#038;B, what seemed alien to you about daily life in Ireland and Luxembourg? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;you are stunned each time that somebody thinks your Visa has expired because it is dated 04\/09\/2010. Culture consists, in part, of the customs that you take for granted. So we know that we&#8217;re adapting to European culture (or Western European or French-inflected or whatever) when we&#8217;re surprised by how things are done in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,225,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}