{"id":901,"date":"2008-01-28T06:17:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/the-smoke-is-out-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T06:17:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T14:17:36","slug":"the-smoke-is-out-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/the-smoke-is-out-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smoke is Out in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/cigarettestubbedout.jpg\" alt=\"Cigarette stubbed out on a mirror\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Normally a trip to Europe means a trip to a very large ashtray. But in the two years since I&#8217;ve been here, at least in Germany, the situation has completely changed. This visit there was very little smoke apparent in public indoor areas and that, at least for me, was a welcome and refreshing change.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSince I was only in one small area of Germany, I don&#8217;t know if this is a country level activity or if the practice has become more wide spread. But I can&#8217;t help but think it makes the whole experience a little more enjoyable and perhaps even healthier than the old ashtray days. I certainly don&#8217;t miss the smoke and smell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally a trip to Europe means a trip to a very large ashtray. But in the two years since I&#8217;ve been here, at least in Germany, the situation has completely changed. This visit there was very little smoke apparent in public indoor areas and that, at least for me, was a welcome and refreshing change. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}