{"id":179,"date":"2014-05-19T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2014-05-27T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:39:13","slug":"179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"The global village is having brunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-184\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-34-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo-34\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-34-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-34-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-34.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My inner flaneur is excited, jazzed: it&#8217;s early morning in the city. \u00a0The morning mist is burning off and the hot sun rising over manicured Marylebone. \u00a0The haute bourgeois are resplendent in their Sunday rituals: expensive coffee, French pasties, a buffed well-being. \u00a0A woman applying her makeup in the sparkle of a window. \u00a0A three-year-old boy in glasses and shorts by the name of Bonsy is called after by his parents.<\/p>\n<p>Certain things have stayed the same: the low red brick buildings, the high street, the news and crescent circles and private gardens. \u00a0A low hymn is issuing from a church. \u00a0The organ, mournful and meditative, is a vestige of a tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The inhabitants have changed. \u00a0Every second conversation sweeping me along is in French. \u00a0Every third Spanish. \u00a0The capital of Europe is London. \u00a0Right now, the global village is having brunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My inner flaneur is excited, jazzed: it&#8217;s early morning in the city. \u00a0The morning mist is burning off and the hot sun rising over manicured Marylebone. \u00a0The haute bourgeois are resplendent in their Sunday rituals: expensive coffee, French pasties, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4D5qU-179","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}