{"id":347,"date":"2006-06-12T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2009-12-31T17:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:42:30","slug":"germany-is-like-australia-exhibit-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/06\/germany-is-like-australia-exhibit-a.html","title":{"rendered":"Germany is like Australia: Exhibit A"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really like Berlin; so much so that when I came back to Australia from visiting there six years ago and people asked me what it was like, I said &#8220;It&#8217;s a lot like Melbourne.&#8221; This did not go down well with my German or otherwise-Europeanny friends.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">How!?<\/span>&#8221; they demanded to know. I give you photographic proof.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22148797@N00\/165911338\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/germanidea02.jpg\" title=\"If you could climb up inside it, that would be perfect.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Germany, as in Australia, Sport = Ideas.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Honestly, Australians: can&#8217;t you just imagine a sign saying &#8220;Victoria*: Land of Ideas&#8221; in front of a giant, non-functional footy boot? Really though, this should belong in Queensland, spiritual centre for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia%27s_Big_Things\">Big Things<\/a>.  &#8220;Don&#8217;t miss THE BIG SHOE, 2km west of Beaudesert.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was outside the new central train station in Berlin, a week before (duh!) the World Cup.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">* Or one of the other states. But never &#8220;Australia&#8221;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like Berlin; so much so that when I came back to Australia from visiting there six years ago and people asked me what it was like, I said &#8220;It&#8217;s a lot like Melbourne.&#8221; This did not go down well with my German or otherwise-Europeanny friends. &#8220;How!?&#8221; they demanded to know. I give you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}