{"id":685,"date":"2007-10-13T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T06:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=685"},"modified":"2007-10-13T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T06:28:11","slug":"how-many-kisses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"How many kisses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who know me will confirm that I love travelling and I&#8217;m a pretty friendly sort of guy. This combination causes a major dilemma which was taken up this week on the BBC&#8217;s web site, namely this: when a man meets or leaves a woman, does he simply shake hands, give her one kiss, kiss both cheeks, give three kisses or even four?<br \/>\nNow, obviously it depends on the context of the meeting: is this a business or a social event? has one met the woman before or not? But, as the BBC makes clear in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/7040259.stm\">this report<\/a>, there is also a strong cultural dimension because what is deemed right varies from country to country and even from city to city.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a rough guide to the appropriate number of kisses:<br \/>\nNone: Japan, China<br \/>\nClose friends and family only: Germany, Italy, Middle East (except between male friends)<br \/>\nOne: Belgium<br \/>\nTwo: Spain, Austria, Hungary, Greece, some parts of France<br \/>\nThree: Brittany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium (if other person 10 years older), Egypt, Russia<br \/>\nFour: Paris and Geneva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who know me will confirm that I love travelling and I&#8217;m a pretty friendly sort of guy. This combination causes a major dilemma which was taken up this week on the BBC&#8217;s web site, namely this: when a man meets or leaves a woman, does he simply shake hands, give her one kiss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}