{"id":568,"date":"2007-07-06T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T09:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/06\/cab-ride-to-the-hotel-correction\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T09:15:49","slug":"cab-ride-to-the-hotel-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/06\/cab-ride-to-the-hotel-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Cab ride to the hotel: correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On closer inspection I now realize those weren&#8217;t actual Swiss people, they were German-speaking baby giraffes. But in my defense, it&#8217;s an easy mistake to make.<br \/>\nActual Swiss people have struck me as exceptionally quiet, at least compared to us yackety yack Yanks. We went through a plaza today with well over a hundred people and there was barely an audible murmur. Walking past a gent on a cell phone, we were amazed (and, frankly, moved) by his ability to hold a conversation while emitting a noise about as loud as a summer breeze.<br \/>\nOK. Must stop now. Typing too loud. Some folks across the street are starting to scowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On closer inspection I now realize those weren&#8217;t actual Swiss people, they were German-speaking baby giraffes. But in my defense, it&#8217;s an easy mistake to make. Actual Swiss people have struck me as exceptionally quiet, at least compared to us yackety yack Yanks. We went through a plaza today with well over a hundred people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}