{"id":1421,"date":"2014-04-25T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T21:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:38:08","slug":"impressions-from-a-trip-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Impressions from a trip to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow resident German citizens!<\/p>\n<p>Is it really and completely normal for you that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the stamp vending machines of the German Post still return the change in worthless stamps only?<\/li>\n<li>a post counter hosted in a supermarket and tended by the personnel of the supermarket closes at 18:30, even though the supermarket itself is open until 20:00?<\/li>\n<li>many shops don&#8217;t accept card payments even for larger purchases?<\/li>\n<li>half of the shops which do accept cards only accept certain cards, but no VISA?<\/li>\n<li>you are looked at stupidly when paying with counted cash down to the cent?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow resident German citizens! Is it really and completely normal for you that the stamp vending machines of the German Post still return the change in worthless stamps only? a post counter hosted in a supermarket and tended by the personnel of the supermarket closes at 18:30, even though the supermarket itself is open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_en","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48grL-mV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}