{"id":222,"date":"2008-12-09T14:13:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/12\/09\/a-year-in-the-merde-aqr\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:48:10","slug":"a-year-in-the-merde-aqr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/12\/09\/a-year-in-the-merde-aqr\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year in the Merde &#8211; AQR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_happy.gif\" alt=\"Happy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Happy&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/action_listen.gif\" alt=\"Listening to CBC Radio\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> Listening to CBC Radio&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41KCR9EW45L._SX160_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brit Paul West is hired by a French firn to develop an authentic English tea house chain.  He moves to Paris and finds himself almost immediately struggling to fit in to to the City of Lights.  He finds navigating the streets while trying to avoid piles of dog poo.  Paul also finds that in France, work has a whole different meaning, what with strikes and workers who don&#8217;t actually work.  Finally, he also finds that Parisiam women are completely different than British women.<\/p>\n<p>Author Stephan Clark has created a laugh out loud piece of fish out of water fiction.  The reader is taken along on Paul&#8217;s journey down the rabbit hole. This is so worth reading.  I have requested the next one from the biblio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Happy&nbsp;][&nbsp; Currently: Listening to CBC Radio&nbsp;] Brit Paul West is hired by a French firn to develop an authentic English tea house chain. 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