{"id":21246,"date":"2010-08-13T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/harry_mount_americans_the_most_polite_yet_direct_people_in_the_world\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:40:01","slug":"harry_mount_americans_the_most_polite_yet_direct_people_in_the_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21246","title":{"rendered":"Harry Mount (Telegraph)&#8211;Americans: the most polite yet direct people in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just touched down in America for a week, and am immediately reminded about the extraordinary manners of the Americans.  In the loos at Atlanta Airport, a man pulled at the door of an occupied stall, only to find it was locked. \u201cExcuse me, sir,\u201d\u009d he immediately said.<\/p>\n<p>A middle-aged blonde lady, also in Atlanta Airport, bumped into a young man, and said with a laugh, \u201cOh, I\u2019m sorry, I was drifting off there.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/harrymount\/100045953\/americans-the-most-polite-yet-direct-people-in-the-world\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just touched down in America for a week, and am immediately reminded about the extraordinary manners of the Americans. In the loos at Atlanta Airport, a man pulled at the door of an occupied stall, only to find<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21246\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-england-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}