{"id":3114,"date":"2015-01-20T17:20:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2015-01-20T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T13:20:20","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-when-in-rome-do-as-the-romans-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-when-in-rome-do-as-the-romans-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 When in Rome, do as the Romans do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lakedistrict.gov.uk\/__data\/assets\/image\/0015\/171240\/hd_img_8693.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When in Rome, do as the Romans do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Act the way that the people around you are acting. This phrase might come in handy when you&#8217;re traveling abroad notice that people do things differently than you&#8217;re used to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myninjaplease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Above_when_in_rome_2.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Henry Porter, wrote a version very similar to the present day version of the proverb in his play\u00a0<em>The Pleasant History of the Two Angry Women of Abington<\/em>, in 1599:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nay, I hope, as I have temperance to forbear drink, so have I patience to endure drink: Ile do as company dooth; for when a man doth to Rome come, he must do as there is done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When in Rome, do as the Romans do.&#8221; What does &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[1274,1272,182,307,1212,1273,1276,1275,1271],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","tag-actions","tag-do-as-the-romans-do","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-interesting-phrase","tag-january-2015","tag-rome","tag-similar","tag-travel","tag-when-in-rome","cat_731"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}