{"id":2346,"date":"2011-03-04T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwallach.com\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2012-04-25T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:48:18","slug":"travel-tip-1-act-like-a-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/2346\/travel-tip-1-act-like-a-local","title":{"rendered":"Travel Tip #1: Act Like a Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Shiekh_Zayed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2347\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Shiekh_Zayed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>Act like a local. If you\u2019re in a country where the men cover their legs at all times, put on a pair of pants and leave the shorts in your suitcase. Buy a pair of shoes in a local store\u2014and not the local Nike store. Trade the Frappuccino for a mango lassi. Remove your hat in the clubhouse and when you shake hands after a match. Take an afternoon siesta rather than rolling your eyes that the bank is closed. Learn to say \u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you\u201d in the prevalent dialect. Don\u2019t show up at a restaurant at six in a country where they eat dinner at ten. And when you do show up, point toward the fattest man in the room and say, \u201cI\u2019ll have what he\u2019s having.\u201d However, if the local delicacy goes by the name of \u201cFluffy\u201d or \u201cRover,\u201d well, everyone has to draw the line somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act like a local. If you\u2019re in a country where the men cover their legs at all times, put on&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/2346\/travel-tip-1-act-like-a-local\" title=\"ReadTravel Tip #1: Act Like a Local\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5975,417928,1483,1694,2226,4907,5048,18,17],"tags":[2879],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-long-island-golf-assoc","category-nw-golf-guys","category-kalos","category-haversham-baker","category-perrygolf","category-oregon-golf-assoc","category-alternative-golf-assoc","category-lifestyle","category-courses-and-travel","tag-travel-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Shiekh_Zayed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}