{"id":203,"date":"2006-03-25T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2006-03-25T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T07:21:00","slug":"driving-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"DRIVING IN NEW ZEALAND."},"content":{"rendered":"

Are there any Kiwis<\/a> out there who can [try to] explain THIS<\/a> to the rest of us? <\/p>\n

Presumably, the car had an automatic transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are there any Kiwis out there who can [try to] explain THIS to the rest of us? Presumably, the car had an automatic transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75qi3-3h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=88","url_meta":{"origin":203,"position":0},"title":"MEET FELIX.","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"January 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I was watching The Beatles Anthology DVD box set a few years ago. Paul was presumably saying something profound to the interviewer.But then...George, my favorite Beatle, suddenly whipped out a ukulele and proceeded to drown-out Paul with a tune that sounded like the fruit of a coital relationship between Don\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 28 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 28 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=88#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":323,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=323","url_meta":{"origin":203,"position":1},"title":"CAL\u00c7OTS, TAKE ME AWAAAAAAY!","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"March 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019d drive halfway across Spain for a good cal\u00e7otada. In fact, that\u2019s exactly what I did last weekend.The infamous Marta and her cuddly parents hosted a cal\u00e7otada at their Tarragonese beach house on Saturday. And it was faaaabulous!What? You\u2019ve never heard of a \u201ccal\u00e7otada?!\u201d Don\u2019t feel bad. There are plenty\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 9 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 9 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=323#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":277,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=277","url_meta":{"origin":203,"position":2},"title":"THE MEME\u2019S ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST.","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"August 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The proprietors of four admirable blogs were quietly minding their own businesses last week when, without warning, I callously tagged them to carry-forward a meme called \u201cTop Five Childhood Food Memories.\u201d Well\u2026those seeds have started to bear fruit.Check out Mausi\u2019s brilliant write-up, and you\u2019ll learn what to spread on a\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=277#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":322,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=322","url_meta":{"origin":203,"position":3},"title":"SEND IN THE CLOWNS.","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"March 31, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The circus has come to town!That, in itself, is not a noteworthy event. Many circuses pass through Spain during bullfighting\u2019s off-season; taking advantage of dormant bullrings as a convenient venue. However, a new circus (pictured above) reared its head this year: \u201cPYONGYANG REVOLUTION 2005 \u2013 THE NORTH KOREAN NATIONAL CIRCUS!\u201dThis\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 7 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 7 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=322#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":212,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=212","url_meta":{"origin":203,"position":4},"title":"INTERNET IS AN EXPAT\u2019S BEST FRIEND.","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"March 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"[Note: This is an essay that I published in Expatica Spain a few weeks ago.]My great-grandparents were Italian expats. They moved to the US nearly one hundred years before the Internet. Expats without Internet! Can you imagine?! I don\u2019t know how the hell they did it.I, on the other hand,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 40 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 40 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=212#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":414,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=414","url_meta":{"origin":203,"position":5},"title":"CABANILLAS DEL CAMPO: A SHOPPER\u2019S PARADISE!","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"June 24, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Listed below is a survey of the business establishments in our beloved town of Cabanillas del Campo, Spain: - Six (6) bars. - Four (4) banks. - Four (4) anything-for-a-Euro shops. - Three (3) beauty salons. - Two (2) grocery stores. - Two (2) video rental stores. - One (1)\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=414#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}