{"id":11301,"date":"2011-09-01T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&p=11301"},"modified":"2011-09-01T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:50:37","slug":"paris-or-orlando-a-tale-of-two-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/09\/01\/paris-or-orlando-a-tale-of-two-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris or Orlando? A Tale of Two Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paris, where the European Society of Cardiology is currently holding its annual meeting, is one of the world’s great cities. Orlando is the world capitol of medical meetings. Here are just a few of the differences. (Thanks as indicated for the suggestions.)<\/p>\n

Paris has a bewildering variety of long-distance trains, commuter trains, and subways. In Orlando you can take a monorail to Disney World.<\/p>\n

Air conditioning in Orlando is ubiquitous. There is no French word for “air conditioning.”<\/p>\n

Nearly every restaurant in Orlando has waiters dressed in costumes. Waiters in Paris pretend they don’t speak English.<\/p>\n

Orlando has amusement parks. Paris has the Louvre.<\/p>\n

The average BMI is quite different! (Chris Cannon)<\/p>\n

As different as Beaujolais and Coke. You guess which is which. (James Rudd)<\/p>\n

In Orlando service is not included in the meal price, whereas in Paris it’s included but not evident. (anonymous)<\/p>\n

Orlando has oranges, Paris l’Orangerie. (anonymous)<\/p>\n

In Orlando you get bottomless cups of bad coffee. In Paris you get a tablespoon of good coffee, and it’s called a large cup. (anonymous)<\/p>\n

Take your kids to Orlando. Take your spouse to Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘ Paris, where the European Society of Cardiology is currently holding its annual meeting, is one of the world’s great cities. Orlando is the world capitol of medical meetings. Here are just a few of the differences. (Thanks as indicated for the suggestions.) Paris has a bewildering variety of long-distance trains, commuter trains, and subways. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-11301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-esc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}