{"id":314,"date":"2005-11-10T22:46:53","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=314"},"modified":"2008-12-07T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T21:58:41","slug":"things-that-are-cool-about-the-usa-part-3-in-a-3-part-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"things that are cool about the usa (part 3 in a 3 part series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<p>Gear is cheap!<br \/>\nIn DC &#8211; the metro (the ticketing system, the fact there are staff everywhere, the flashing lights on the platform before a train cames, the fact trains come so often)<br \/>\nSquirrels, chipmunks and deers (and all these other novelty animals)<br \/>\nSnow making things pretty<br \/>\nThe countdown number on the pedestrian crossing, so you know how long you have to cross<br \/>\nDrive-through ATMs<br \/>\nThose huge choc chip cookies in Pentagon City Mall<br \/>\nSelf-checkout at some supermarkets<br \/>\nThings in the supermarket having prices\/pound for everything, so you don&#8217;t have to work out yourself whether the big or little things are better value<br \/>\nYou can get cheaper flights to lots of places, and you&#8217;re closer to a lot of the world than you are in Australia<br \/>\nLots of yummy Mexican food (and pseudo Mexican, with Chipotle)<br \/>\nSaigon Cafe in Harrisonburg, <strike>WV<\/strike> VA<br \/>\nCycling with traffic on the right side of the road = I can put my foot on the kerb at traffic lights<br \/>\nThe Bolthouse Farms range of drink, especially the Chai Protein drink<br \/>\nA&#038;J&#8217;s Chinese restaurant in Rockville<br \/>\nHuge range of yummy icecreams<br \/>\nPetrol is cheap<br \/>\nThey have high mountains<br \/>\nYou can always turn right on a red light (would be left in Australia &#8211; thanks to Mimi for the reminder about this one)<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gear is cheap! In DC &#8211; the metro (the ticketing system, the fact there are staff everywhere, the flashing lights on the platform before a train cames, the fact trains come so often) Squirrels, chipmunks and deers (and all these other novelty animals) Snow making things pretty The countdown number on the pedestrian crossing, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,256],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-culture-shock","tag-usa"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">culture shock<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">culture shock<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"9","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 20 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 10.11.2005","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 10.11.2005 10:46 pm","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008 3:58 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}