{"id":2212,"date":"2016-10-17T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2016-10-17T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:45:38","slug":"cultural-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2016\/10\/cultural-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cDear US, you have an extraordinary bullying culture that you praise as much as you despise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDear France, you have an extraordinary avoiding culture that you praise as much as you despise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I tweeted that and I kind of feel like it\u2019s damn true. People bully each other a lot here, the cause being good or bad doesn\u2019t matter, people truly enjoy going at it, going after it. Like American football. In France it\u2019s more like the opposite where people avoid confrontation a lot more because it\u2019s kind of stupid, the outcome is never good. Like European football. The problem though is that at some point, it explodes and it explodes big time. And we\u2019re all very conscious about it. US folks denounce bullying all the time and French people often criticize the lack of action, pointing at the terrible inertia. Yet, we continue.<\/p>\n<p>Just observing our cultural patterns and paradoxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDear US, you have an extraordinary bullying culture that you praise as much as you despise.\u201d \u201cDear France, you have an extraordinary avoiding culture that you praise as much as you despise.\u201d I tweeted that and I kind of feel like it\u2019s damn true. People bully each other a lot here, the cause being good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}