{"id":567,"date":"2007-07-15T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T10:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=567"},"modified":"2007-07-15T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T10:28:34","slug":"the-world-in-one-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"The World In One City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major reasons that I love living in London is that it is such a cosmopolitan and multicultural city. Some of our closest neighbours are Irish, Indian, Pakistani, Polish and Lebanese. Some of our closest friends are Chinese.  My newsagent is Sri Lankan, my doctor is Indian, my hairdresser is Kosovan, and my dentist is Iranian.<br \/>\nLast night, my wife Vee (half Welsh, half Czech) and I (half English, half Italian) went out for dinner with our good friends Eric (American) and Noemi (French) and their son Yonatan (Israeli) to the Italian restaurant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zizzi.co.uk\">Zizzi<\/a> where we were served by people from Poland, Slovakia and Moldova.<br \/>\nI thought of the evening as I read in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,,2126742,00.html\">an article<\/a> about a blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/worldinonecity.blogspot.com\/\">&#8220;The World In One City&#8221;<\/a>. This describes a project by Alex Horne and Owen Powell to interview for their blog someone living in London from each of the 192 countries in the world. As of today, they&#8217;ve managed 112 profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major reasons that I love living in London is that it is such a cosmopolitan and multicultural city. Some of our closest neighbours are Irish, Indian, Pakistani, Polish and Lebanese. Some of our closest friends are Chinese. My newsagent is Sri Lankan, my doctor is Indian, my hairdresser is Kosovan, and my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}