{"id":8261,"date":"2017-12-20T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2017-12-20T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:47:21","slug":"only-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8261","title":{"rendered":"Only in the USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the hapless US customs officer featured below going to do when he finds out there&#8217;s a Paris in France as well as Texas, an Athens in Greece as well as Georgia and Boston is named after a market town in Lincolnshire in the UK?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/12\/bayreuth_beirut.png\" alt=\"tweet detailing conversation with US customs officer who confuses Bayreuth Germany with Beirut Lebanon\" width=\"600\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/12\/bayreuth_beirut.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/12\/bayreuth_beirut-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No further comment needed. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the hapless US customs officer featured below going to do when he finds out there&#8217;s a Paris in France as well as Texas, an Athens in Greece as well as Georgia and Boston is named after a market town in Lincolnshire in the UK? No further comment needed. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[36,16,10,22,35],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8264,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions\/8264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}