{"id":250,"date":"2013-08-25T04:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T04:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2013-08-25T04:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T04:16:03","slug":"the-most-wonderful-thing-you-can-offer-someone-or-be-offered-in-a-foreign-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"The most wonderful thing you can offer someone, or be offered, in a foreign place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An excerpt from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Blood, Bones &amp; Butter<\/span> by Gabrielle Hamilton<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cIn the evening, we were joined by a friend of his, and we walked to a restaurant near the Acropolis\u2026Iannis, without wasting a moment on that awkward and tedious conversation that will unhappily precede so many hundreds and hundreds of future restaurant meals in all of our lives \u2013 whether to share or not to share and whether or not there are food phobias and dietary restrictions among us \u2013 simply ordered food for the whole table without even consulting a menu, and so set the standard for me for all time of excellent hospitality: Just take care of everything. Is it considered more hospitable to discover your guests\u2019 preferences, their likes and dislikes? Is it rude to deny your guests choice and control over their experience? I don\u2019t know, but I forever want to arrive somewhere hungry and thirsty and tired and be taken are of as Iannis took care of us. I want to be relieved of making possibly poor decisions, to be spared the embarrassing moment when I \u2013 the guest \u2013 am asked to state my preference\u2026Delicious food and drink arrived at our table, and it was immediately clear how Iannis hadn\u2019t needed a menu or a survey of our preferences to order because he simply presented a classic, traditional Greek meal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from Blood, Bones &amp; Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton \u201cIn the evening, we were joined by a friend of his, and we walked to a restaurant near the Acropolis\u2026Iannis, without wasting a moment on that awkward and tedious conversation that will unhappily precede so many hundreds and hundreds of future restaurant meals in all&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/?p=250\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The most wonderful thing you can offer someone, or be offered, in a foreign place<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}