{"id":818,"date":"2015-06-28T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=818"},"modified":"2021-12-06T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:54:10","slug":"now-how-do-i-say-that-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2015\/06\/28\/now-how-do-i-say-that-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Now how do I say that in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After my last post, someone mentioned that my explanations of local phenomena to people in the US are also probably funny. It’s true. For example . . .<\/p>\n

Walmart doesn’t exist in My Country. Instead, I find a lot of things that I need at the local “boutique.” If you wanted to open a boutique, imagine you open a little mom-and-pop shop in your bathroom but put it right next to your mailbox.<\/p>\n

Now, they don’t have mailboxes there and you wouldn’t really open up a shop in your bathroom, but that description gives you a little idea of the size (bathroom size), the availability of goods (a mom-and-pop-shop-like collection) and the location (not in the house, but right by the road).<\/p>\n

Actually, the afternoon after I gave that description, I got an e-mail from a family from church whose three little boys had opened their own boutique on the front porch. Glad to hear someone was listening when I was talking (even though the location was a little wrong)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my last post, someone mentioned that my explanations of local phenomena to people in the US are also probably funny. It’s true. For example . . . Walmart doesn’t exist in My Country. Instead, I find a lot of things that I need at the local “boutique.” If you wanted to open a boutique, […]<\/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-818","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\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}