{"id":1157,"date":"2005-08-15T13:44:56","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T04:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2007-01-05T00:57:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T22:57:57","slug":"always-bring-it-back-to-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/15\/always-bring-it-back-to-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Always bring it back to Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small <em>quid pro quo<\/em> today reminded me of an old conversation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Tomomi: <\/strong > But Dave-san, is there really a difference between English and American?<\/p>\n<p><strong>dr Dave:<\/strong> Of course there is. British are civilised people. Americans are ruthless barbarians: they couldn&#8217;t make a cup of tea to save their life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T:<\/strong> Maajii-de?!?<\/p>\n<p><strong>drD:<\/strong> When Americans try to make tea, they use cold sea-water and don&#8217;t even bother taking the leaves out of the box. And that&#8217;s Boston we&#8217;re talking about. The further west you go, the worse it gets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T:<\/strong> Aa, so-ka, so-ka. It all makes sense now.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anything I can do to bring greater cultural understanding between people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small quid pro quo today reminded me of an old conversation: Tomomi: But Dave-san, is there really a difference between English and American? dr Dave: Of course there is. British are civilised people. Americans are ruthless barbarians: they couldn&#8217;t make a cup of tea to save their life. T: Maajii-de?!? drD: When Americans try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-europe","category-friends","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}