{"id":1855,"date":"2010-01-07T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/we_americans_ab\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:30:46","slug":"we_americans_ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/we_americans_ab\/","title":{"rendered":"We Americans Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve had this <i>TImes<\/i> article<\/strong> sitting in a tab in my browser for the last day because it rang true in so many ways and I wanted to write about that, but frankly I don&#8217;t have the time or the energy (which is another lengthy post in itself, really). In short, though: I prefer living over here and a lot of Americans get on my nerves when I stumble across them, but until I read this I was having trouble articulating what I actually liked on the whole about Americans, and what Europeans always try but fail to explain about what they like about Americans. So good work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/03\/books\/review\/Dyer-t.html\"  title=\"My American Friends\">Mr Dyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/03\/books\/review\/Dyer-t.html\" >My American Friends<\/a>, by Geoff Dyer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had this TImes article sitting in a tab in my browser for the last day because it rang true in so many ways and I wanted to write about that, but frankly I don&#8217;t have the time or the energy (which is another lengthy post in itself, really). In short, though: I prefer living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/we_americans_ab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Americans Abroad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}