{"id":5697,"date":"2013-07-17T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2013-07-17T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:05:44","slug":"hey-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/07\/17\/hey-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, America!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nineteen days.\u00a0 19.\u00a0 Oddly, the “culture shock” has been more abrasive upon returning to America than it was when I entered Germany.\u00a0 Perhaps because, when I went to Germany, everything was new and exciting, an adventure!\u00a0 I tried to absorb it all, as quickly as I could.\u00a0 My feelings about returning to the States are and were very mixed, very bittersweet.\u00a0 I notice a new perspective, one that I believe can only be gained with experience outside one’s home; I now have a comparison, a contrast, one that I did not, before my year abroad.\u00a0 I notice differences in clothing styles, speech mannerisms, etiquette, culture, music, relations, things that I never saw before.\u00a0 Some of it is positive; some not so much.\u00a0 Regardless, it affirms my opinion that everyone who can live abroad for a period, should<\/em>, if only to realize all of the different possibilities in life.<\/p>\n

That’s all, Loggers.\u00a0 Enjoy the summer.\u00a0 =D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nineteen days.\u00a0 19.\u00a0 Oddly, the “culture shock” has been more abrasive upon returning to America than it was when I entered Germany.\u00a0 Perhaps because, when I went to Germany, everything was new and exciting, an adventure!\u00a0 I tried to absorb … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kat-schmidt-12-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}