{"id":843,"date":"2026-04-12T21:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:16:32","slug":"portuguese-elevator-mannerisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Elevator Mannerisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Entering a small elevator, especially if someone&#8217;s already inside: First &#8220;Bom dia\/tarde\/noite&#8221;, then &#8220;Posso?&#8221;<br>As you reach to press your button: &#8220;Com licen\u00e7a&#8221;<br>When exiting: another &#8220;Bom dia\/tarde\/noite&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may sound too formal, but I\u2019m firmly on the side of these small pleasantries. They\u2019re the soft edges of a community&#8230; a small \u201cprice\u201d to pay to stop a place from feeling like everyone\u2019s just passing through each other. We\u2019re <em>wired<\/em> for connection, after all.<br>Tbh I&#8217;ve said &#8220;bom dia&#8221; to more people in a month, in Portugal&#8230;. than I&#8217;ve done in 30 years in London.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entering a small elevator, especially if someone&#8217;s already inside: First &#8220;Bom dia\/tarde\/noite&#8221;, then &#8220;Posso?&#8221;As you reach to press your button: &#8220;Com licen\u00e7a&#8221;When exiting: another &#8220;Bom dia\/tarde\/noite&#8221; It may sound too formal, but I\u2019m firmly on the side of these small pleasantries. They\u2019re the soft edges of a community&#8230; a small \u201cprice\u201d to pay to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}