{"id":26,"date":"2004-09-21T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/21\/snapshots-of-rome\/"},"modified":"2004-09-21T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T20:06:25","slug":"snapshots-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/21\/snapshots-of-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a36'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Two women in very<br \/>\nfashionable business dress on a motor scooter.&nbsp; The one not<br \/>\ndriving was talking to the other one at a stop light and gesticulating<br \/>\nwith her hands, even though the other one (in front) couldn&#x2019;t even see<br \/>\nher. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Every single person on a motor<br \/>\nscooter or motorcycle wears a helmet without exception, but no taxi<br \/>\ndriver ever wears his or her seat belt.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure the helmets are because of a law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The taxi dispatchers called out the<br \/>\nnumbers and locations in a way that took the normal inflection of<br \/>\nItalian speech &#x2013; often lampooned in the U.S., think &#x201C;we&#x2019;re-a going-a<br \/>\nto-a the store-a&#x201D; &#x2013; and exaggerated it just a little bit, making a<br \/>\nbeautiful, entrancing, rhythmic, sing-song chant.&nbsp; It was so great<br \/>\nthat Sara and I actually recorded it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Fashion.&nbsp; The stereotypes are<br \/>\ntrue, Romans are really into dressing fashionably.&nbsp; It was<br \/>\namazing.&nbsp; High heels, cleavage, low-low-I MEAN LOW-rise<br \/>\njeans.&nbsp; And the Italian women wear this eye makeup that accentuates<br \/>\ntheir already beautiful, dark eyes.&nbsp; Smoldering.&nbsp; Oh yeah,<br \/>\nand there were plenty of extremely well-dressed men but who cares about<br \/>\nthem. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Romans standing at the caf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two women in very fashionable business dress on a motor scooter.&nbsp; The one not driving was talking to the other one at a stop light and gesticulating with her hands, even though the other one (in front) couldn&#x2019;t even see her. Every single person on a motor scooter or motorcycle wears a helmet without exception, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackstriptoeuropestories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}