{"id":10429,"date":"2016-09-06T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T08:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2016-09-09T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:07:29","slug":"what-a-difference-a-few-months-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/what-a-difference-a-few-months-make\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Difference a Few Months Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the village shop, where I hoped they would have the good German butter. They did! But not only that, they&#8217;ve seriously expanded their product line. They now consistently have deli meats, cheese, butter, yoghurt, bread, decent produce, and now even a meat freezer. What a contrast to when I arrived and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/not-a-good-day\/\">was forced to walk the 12KM to Yablanitsa and back in torrid conditions just for a few staples<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I got the butter, cheese, and salami on my list, and then added a package of kufte meat (think seasoned ground pork with which to make meatballs) from the meat freezer.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting for the cashier to fix the coffeemaker and serve me, I noticed a new spice rack (which had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-lazy-morning-in-sofia\/\">baking soda<\/a>, LOL) as well as an improved sweets display that featured Milka-brand chocolate, which is really good. I&#8217;ve gone in less than three months from the gal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/chicken\/\">who was scared to go into the shop<\/a> to the\u00a0gal who could say, &#8220;And Milka chocolate with hazelnuts, please,&#8221; in Bulgarian! The clerk immediately grabbed the right package. It never fails to astound\u00a0me when someone understands my small bits of Bulgarian. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Back to work I got. I&#8217;m in overtime mode from getting some extra work yesterday when everyone else was slacking off. I take Labour Day literally! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the village shop, where I hoped they would have the good German butter. They did! But not only that, they&#8217;ve seriously expanded their product line. They now consistently have deli meats, cheese, butter, yoghurt, bread, decent produce, and now even a meat freezer. What a contrast to when I arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,636,917,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-europe","category-malak-izvor","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}