{"id":2955,"date":"2012-03-17T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2012-03-17T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:23:40","slug":"it-looks-the-same-from-the-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/it-looks-the-same-from-the-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"It looks the same from the outside&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to read a lot of &#8220;travelers blogs&#8221; and one thing I read over and over is the complaint that Americans (USA) refuse to get out of their &#8220;comfort zone&#8221;. That go to other countries and then go to McDonalds. They write about it as if all Americans are ignorant fools. This could be true but personally, I love to go to American export stores in other countries. It is fascinating to me because I like to see how and why the store works in that country. Case in point, a few blocks from my father&#8217;s house in Mexico City is a 7\/11. For the most part it looks like any other 7\/11 one would find in the United States. Then when you look closer you start to notice differences.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2956\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/711web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/711web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"711web\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2956\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last time I went to my local 7\/11 jalepenos were not standard issue on chicken salad sandwiches.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nI am not saying you should spend all your time going to American export stores, but if you have the time it could be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to read a lot of &#8220;travelers blogs&#8221; and one thing I read over and over is the complaint that Americans (USA) refuse to get out of their &#8220;comfort zone&#8221;. That go to other countries and then go to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/it-looks-the-same-from-the-outside\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,31],"tags":[53,293,540,541,778,832],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips","category-uncategorized","category-world-travel","tag-53","tag-df","tag-mexico","tag-mexico-city","tag-seven-eleven","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}