{"id":150,"date":"2006-07-08T23:46:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T21:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-09-26T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T18:43:53","slug":"sc-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/sc-beach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SC beach 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" border=\"0\" alt=\"67400006.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constantvzw.com\/sarah_archives\/67400006.JPG\" \/><\/td>\n<td>sahar&#8217;s second day of california life as we go to the beach (ay, you might started thinking that work simply is not part of life here&#8230;) and sahar is yet another one who manages to take a quick swim in this chilling cold ocean. and then there&#8217;s the 6 year old boy with the inquisitive look who stops near the small camp we made (with a big parasol and a purple blanket) and asks: &#8220;why do you have all that hair there?&#8221; he&#8217;s pointing to my armpits. because it grows there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>and the urge to talk about how doing social relations and friendships and community is so different in this country. we don&#8217;t have adequate words yet to pin-point the difference down, but it&#8217;s a difference we can&#8217;t help not liking&#8230;<br \/>\ni&#8217;m reminded of berna who would regularly talk (complain \ud83d\ude42 ) about this, adding a skeptical question &#8220;how come it is different with mar\u00c3\u00ada and you, i thought europeans were much closer to americans in that respect?&#8221; i&#8217;m reminded of wim&#8217;s warning before i left to the U.S. &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be so much harder and more different for you than in istanbul or kazan.&#8221; words that proved prophetic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sahar&#8217;s second day of california life as we go to the beach (ay, you might started thinking that work simply is not part of life here&#8230;) and sahar is yet another one who manages to take a quick swim in this chilling cold ocean. and then there&#8217;s the 6 year old boy with the inquisitive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/sc-beach-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SC beach 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}