{"id":600,"date":"2009-08-15T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T20:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2014-05-20T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:30:03","slug":"159736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/159736\/","title":{"rendered":"159736"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this morning i dropped off my uruguayan hostal-mate and his girlfriend at their new apartment here. they also offered me some mate, which tastes worse than it sounds&#8230;well, as far as i&#8217;m concerned, they could call it ashtray juice and it still wouldn&#8217;t do the drink justice. but it&#8217;s probably me, since i don&#8217;t like a lot of things&#8230;and they love it so much that, from uruguay, they brought a special goblet and silver straw to drink it with. afterwards, i walked around the center a bit, checking out a couple museums&#8230;and whatever else was open (it&#8217;s a national holiday, so 99% of the city is closed today). i&#8217;m not sure if it was the extreme-walkability of santiago or the miserable, gray, rainy weather&#8230;but, today, santiago reminded me a bit of boston. because it rains so infrequently here, it seems that many of their infrastructures are not as well equipped as you might think &#8212; 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