{"id":1609,"date":"2021-11-23T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:23:56","slug":"convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2021\/11\/23\/convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Convenience is very different here in the city than it is in the US. Let me give you just one example . . .<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The last few days it’s been quite hot and I haven’t felt like cooking a hot meal in the evening. Instead, I decided to just have a salad, and so I walked about a block to the lady who makes and sells salad in the evenings. Thirty cents for a salad – lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, and dressing. Ten cents extra for mayonnaise, twenty cents extra for a hard boiled egg in it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But when I went last night, the lady wasn’t at her stand so someone went into her courtyard to tell her that she had a customer. She didn’t come out quickly, and after a bit someone came and said she was taking a shower. (Here, it’s not awkward to talk about that!) My fast food just became a lot less fast. But I decided to work with the convenience of life here – I left my 50 cents (salad with egg, no mayonnaise) and the tupperware I brought with a lady sitting nearby and explained where my house was. And I went home. After a bit, a kid came and delivered my salad, in my tupperware, to my front door. Talk about service and convenience! (And no delivery fee, even!)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Convenience is very different here in the city than it is in the US. Let me give you just one example . . . The last few days it’s been quite hot and I haven’t felt like cooking a hot meal in the evening. Instead, I decided to just have a salad, and so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}