{"id":249,"date":"1998-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-07-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=249"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"Only In America","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Only In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in America &#8230; can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do drugstores make the sick people walk all the way to the back counter to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy their cigarettes at the front.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do people order double cheese burgers, a large fry, and a diet coke.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless things and junk in boxes in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won&#8217;t miss a call from someone we didn&#8217;t want to talk to in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do we use the word &#8220;politics&#8221; to describe the process so well: &#8220;Poli&#8221; in latin meaning &#8220;many&#8221; and &#8220;tics&#8221; meaning &#8220;blood-sucking creatures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America &#8230; do we have drive-up ATM&#8217;s with Braille lettering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only in America &#8230; can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. Only in America &#8230; do drugstores make the sick people walk all the way to the back counter to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy their cigarettes at the front. Only in America &#8230; are there handicap parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}