{"id":511,"date":"2008-12-30T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=511"},"modified":"2008-12-31T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T13:03:47","slug":"qh-podcast-postcards-from-across-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/qh-podcast-postcards-from-across-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"QH Podcast &#8211; Postcards From Across The Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to understand a country is through the eyes of a forginer.   Their lack of familiarity with the place gives them a fresh perspective on a country that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unavailable to people who were born there.  We still rely on the writings of Alex de Tocqueville for the definitive description of early America.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Harling is an American who moved to the UK.  He&#8217;s been writing about England and other European countries he&#8217;s visited for several years.  Now those articles are available in a great new book, &#8220;Postcards From Across The Pond.&#8221;  While he&#8217;s not as famous as de Tocqueville (yet) he&#8217;s much, much funnier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/podcasts\/index.html#Postcards\">This episode<\/a> of the Quick Hitts Podcast is a reading of excerpts from the book.  Check them out, then buy it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1905430485?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehittchro-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1905430485\">here<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thehittchro-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1905430485\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to understand a country is through the eyes of a forginer. Their lack of familiarity with the place gives them a fresh perspective on a country that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unavailable to people who were born there. We still rely on the writings of Alex de Tocqueville for the definitive description of early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}