{"id":571,"date":"2007-07-12T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/12\/two-conversations\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T11:57:29","slug":"two-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/12\/two-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Two conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bright smiling extremely helpful East German woman &#8212; the designated English speaker at our local pizza shop &#8212; explains that she comes to Switzerland every summer because the East German economy is compeletely thrashed. She tells us, still smiling, that the last year or two it&#8217;s been worse there than it was during communist times. I&#8217;m rooting for her.<br \/>\nElsewhere, an angry man with a silly mustache pulls his car up besides us as we&#8217;re parking. He barks at me in high-speed German. I say &#8220;Hunh?&#8221; Then he jumps back into his car, tears around the corner, parks above us, and throw down some more unkind compound words we can&#8217;t understand. Odds are he&#8217;s Swiss. Still, I can&#8217;t tell if he wants me to move my car or give him Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bright smiling extremely helpful East German woman &#8212; the designated English speaker at our local pizza shop &#8212; explains that she comes to Switzerland every summer because the East German economy is compeletely thrashed. She tells us, still smiling, that the last year or two it&#8217;s been worse there than it was during communist [&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-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}