{"id":19,"date":"2011-02-12T20:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T10:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2011-02-12T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T10:16:52","slug":"capitalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/capitalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know a country without a name. It spans continents, is home to millions and I have lived there. The citizens speak many languages, claim many cultures and, between them, eat anything. It is a nation of Capitals &#8211; official or real. Paris, London, Singapore, Amsterdam, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Berlin, Hong Kong, Madrid. Sydney. The residents of this country share common beliefs. &#8220;In The City&#8221; is superior to &#8220;Outside&#8221;.  &#8220;Everyone who matters is here.&#8221; The culture of this country is often &#8230;different&#8230; from the surroundings. A Londoner will experience less culture shock moving to Singapore than they would moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Braunton\">Braunton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun place. Everyone should live there. And everyone should leave.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney is a part of that country, far more than it is part of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>So we left.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rainbow_above_clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rainbow_above_clouds.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Rainbow above clouds\" title=\"Rainbow Over Clouds\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20\" srcset=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rainbow_above_clouds.jpg 640w, http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rainbow_above_clouds-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Regrets<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a country without a name. It spans continents, is home to millions and I have lived there. The citizens speak many languages, claim many cultures and, between them, eat anything. It is a nation of Capitals &#8211; official &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/capitalia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}