{"id":3832,"date":"2016-07-14T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2016-07-15T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:30:08","slug":"kids-culture-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/kids-culture-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids &#038; Culture Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3275.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3840 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3275-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"4th of July \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3275-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3275-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3275-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3275.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Culture shock. It&#8217;s something our kids are experiencing right now.<\/em> :) When we arrived at the\u00a0house where we are staying, Abigail, dropped to the floor and said, &#8220;The ground is so soft mom!&#8221; Micah quickly followed his sister&#8217;s example and laid beside her, &#8220;Can we sleep here???&#8221; In Cebu, everything is concrete so these carpeted floors became the new big thing in our family. :) Another significant difference the kids noticed was the drinking water. Drinking water from the faucet is a big NO-NO in the Philippines. It can make you terribly sick, so we taught our children not to drink it. So when I filled our glasses with water from the sink, Micah started to cry. &#8220;Please, mom! You told us not to drink the yucky water!&#8221; <em>His genuine concern for us almost made me cry. \u00a0Overall, the kids are loving their time in the States. They have a million questions about everything they see and it is so much fun to introduce them to our homeland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture shock. It&#8217;s something our kids are experiencing right now. :) When we arrived at the\u00a0house where we are staying, Abigail, dropped to the floor and said, &#8220;The ground is so soft mom!&#8221; Micah quickly followed his sister&#8217;s example and laid beside her, &#8220;Can we sleep here???&#8221; In Cebu, everything is concrete so these carpeted floors became the new big &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/kids-culture-shock\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}