{"id":4844,"date":"2013-07-10T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:28:11","slug":"ask-me-anything-italy-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/ask-me-anything-italy-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Me Anything: Italy Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1198\/892660792_2cf2fa817e_n.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" alt=\"Letters, Lettere\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" align=\"right\" \/>Today marks the day I left California 10 years ago, to make a new life in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it might be a good chance for you to ask those burning questions you have all about Italy, so I&#8217;m doing an &#8220;Ask Me Anything: Italy Edition.&#8221; That&#8217;s when I open up the comments to all your questions and I answer them!<\/p>\n<p>Your questions can be about discovering something new in Italy, what you should eat on your next trip, what gift to bring back to your grandmother, what social issue is most worrying today, what I see outside my window, what Italian regions are underrated, what gelato I ate yesterday, what&#8217;s my favorite Italian dish, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ask anything you like \u2013 short questions will be answered directly in the comments, and longer questions may be filed away for future posts. <\/strong>I shouldn&#8217;t have to say this, but please be respectful to me and to fellow commenters.<\/p>\n<p><del><em><strong>I&#8217;ll respond to all comments posted between 11am and 11pm CET &#8211; please check back to see when your comment&#8217;s been responded to!<\/strong><\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to everyone who left their questions! It was fun :)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, make sure you <strong>follow me\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rosso\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a>, become a fan on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MsAdventuresinItaly\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=MsAdventuresinItaly\" target=\"_blank\">sign up to receive posts via email<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>And <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sararosso.us4.list-manage2.com\/subscribe?u=2f68fcf36b4afaaf003b4233e&amp;id=cdd99d71a5&amp;group[16169][1]=true\">don&#8217;t forget to sign up for my newsletter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the day I left California 10 years ago, to make a new life in Italy. I thought it might be a good chance for you to ask those burning questions you have all about Italy, so I&#8217;m doing an &#8220;Ask Me Anything: Italy Edition.&#8221; That&#8217;s when I open up the comments to all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/ask-me-anything-italy-edition\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,82],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-italy","7":"category-me","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-1g8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1798,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/jobs-teaching-and-livework-in-italy-ask-ms-adventures-v-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4844,"position":0},"title":"Jobs, Teaching, Live, Work in Italy &#8211; Ask Ms. Adventures v.2","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"August 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s the next round of questions that were sent to me following up on Help! 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