{"id":181,"date":"2015-10-30T03:33:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2015-11-28T22:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T22:57:23","slug":"brazil-this-time-without-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Brazil &#8211; this time without the police!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to travel to Sao Paulo Brazil. \u00a0For those of you that know me will remember my last trip to Brazil. \u00a0The short story includes these things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stolen Laptop, Passport, IPad, and laptop bag<\/li>\n<li>10 hours in a Brazilian police station<\/li>\n<li>Visit to the US Consulate<\/li>\n<li>Walking down a scary street to get a picture<\/li>\n<li>Finally getting out of the country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I decided to make the trip back to FutureCom again this year. \u00a0Problem is that the Brazilian economy is in the toilet and for the most part the show was a bit more subdued.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I spent some time taking in the Brazilian culture and here are my random musings.<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; The country\/city is actually very artistic. \u00a0I enjoyed the fact that they paint a lot of the concrete structures which cuts down on the graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Traffic Sucks! \u00a0I decided that the reason that the economy is in the toilet is because it takes people FOREVER to get anywhere. \u00a0Really &#8211; it could take an hour to go 5 miles. Productivity is poor because you are always in a CAR! \u00a0 I swear a guy in a rascal could make it faster than riding in a car, which leads me to point 3<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Motorcycle riders are absolutely nuts. \u00a0I watched them run 40 to 50 MPH through traffic between cars. \u00a0They even have the audacity to honk at you if two cars are too close together.<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; The people are amazing. \u00a0Even though I speak no Portuguese, people were amazingly kind. \u00a0Probably much more kind that we Americans are to those non-english speaking that travel to the US.<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; The food&#8230;well they really like their beef. \u00a0While visiting the report comes out from the WHO about beef and how it is going to kill us all. \u00a0To celebrate I had not one but two fillets at dinner (that is the only way they served them). Take that WHO!<\/p>\n<p>While visiting I got to experience a real Brazilian apartment only to hear what sounded like gunfire outside&#8230;which was really fireworks when they scored a recent football goal. \u00a0I got to meet one of my co-workers family and his wife prepared a meal for us &#8211; it was mucho bom &#8211; which is Brazilian for very good. \u00a0In total, it was a good trip, but I am happy to head back home to the family a day earlier than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Good times and great friends. \u00a0I am blessed in many ways and this week reminded me again of just how lucky I am.<\/p>\n<p>Have a happy day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to travel to Sao Paulo Brazil. \u00a0For those of you that know me will remember my last trip to Brazil. \u00a0The short story includes these things: Stolen Laptop, Passport, IPad, and laptop bag 10 hours in a Brazilian police station Visit to the US Consulate Walking down a scary street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrinthomason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}