{"id":45602,"date":"2014-03-27T22:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=45602"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:28:55","slug":"the-geography-of-small-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=45602","title":{"rendered":"The Geography of Small Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90128683\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"The Geography of Small Talk\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHow you start a conversation with a stranger depends on where you live. The diverse geography of American greetings\u2014from Honolulu to Hays, Kansas, from Anchorage to Appleton, Wisconsin, from New Orleans to New York.Based on research and writing by Deborah Fallows. Video from from The Atlantic. Someone needs to do that for Europe, maybe for the whole globe  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How you start a conversation with a stranger depends on where you live. The diverse geography of American greetings\u2014from Honolulu to Hays, Kansas, from Anchorage to Appleton, Wisconsin, from New Orleans to New York.Based on research and writing by Deborah Fallows. Video from from The Atlantic. Someone needs to do that for Europe, maybe for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38982,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=38982","url_meta":{"origin":45602,"position":0},"title":"How do you decide where to go in a zombie apocalypse? &#8211; David Hunter","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"05\/06\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vdtQgwOOiBg Can geography save your life in case of, say, a zombie apocalypse? 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