{"id":191,"date":"2007-09-19T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/09\/10-things-i-noticed-at-the-jfk-gate-bound-for-cdg\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T21:35:12","slug":"10-things-i-noticed-at-the-jfk-gate-bound-for-cdg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/09\/10-things-i-noticed-at-the-jfk-gate-bound-for-cdg\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things I noticed at the JFK gate bound for CDG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting at the JFK airport gate waiting for the call to board for the flight to Paris&#8217;s Charles de Gaulle airport, I already noticed a change from America to France . . . . and beyond<\/p>\n<p>1. A woman continuously rubbing her husband&#8217;s shaved head.<\/p>\n<p>2. A pigeon walking then flying through the concourse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>3. The universal smiles of everyone at the pigeon.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. Many languages spoken.<\/p>\n<p>5. More colors in people&#8217;s clothes and more black clothes.<\/p>\n<p>6. Tibetan monks in robes.<\/p>\n<p>7. Tibetan monks in robes talking on cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>8. A Tibetan monk in a robe with a tattoo.<\/p>\n<p>9. A passenger bring aboard a large bag from Bed, Bath &amp; Beyond.<\/p>\n<p>10. People approaching the three men behind the Delta counter with smiles. The three men behind the Delta counter never smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting at the JFK airport gate waiting for the call to board for the flight to Paris&#8217;s Charles de Gaulle airport, I already noticed a change from America to France . . . . and beyond 1. A woman continuously rubbing her husband&#8217;s shaved head. 2. A pigeon walking then flying through the concourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}