{"id":21755,"date":"2023-03-29T05:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=21755"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:24:15","slug":"blog-post-2-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2023\/03\/29\/blog-post-2-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As someone who has been raised by Spanish values and has visited this country many times before, I can&#8217;t really say that I have had many moments of cultural confrontation. However, one thing I cannot wrap my head around is the way Spaniards eat their French fries with a fork. In the US, everyone eats them with their hands, but doing that here is seen as rude and will get you weird looks. Even hamburgers are occasionally eaten with a fork and knife, which is even more mind-blowing. Another aspect of confrontation that isn&#8217;t exactly cultural but more structural is how you are expected to study from your notes and class PowerPoints instead of being assigned homework. I will be the first to admit that I am terrible at studying; it takes a lot of mental effort to open my notes and revise them, especially since I am a more of a hands on learner. I have yet to overcome this obstacle, but I have made progress during my stay here in Oviedo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who has been raised by Spanish values and has visited this country many times before, I can&#8217;t really say that I have had many moments of cultural confrontation. However, one thing I cannot wrap my head around is the way Spaniards eat their French fries with a fork. In the US, everyone eats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-21755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oviedo","tag-rollinsabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions\/21764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}