Un miracolo!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nI could only write from the American male point of view, but I\u2019d love to hear about the other perspectives, as well. My central idea for the article was to explore how difficult it can be to discern something as unwritten and subtle as courtship protocols in another country. It took me more than four decades to figure out my own culture\u2019s accepted norms and then all of a sudden I had to question everything and start from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It worked out OK for me, though. In fact, my Italian wife and I are doing our part to populate the next generation of Italians. Our little bambina<\/i> will be here any day. So now it\u2019s more important than ever for me to figure out what those mischievous little boys are up to so that I can\u2026kill them all no matter where the hell they come from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently I was honored when my former Italian professor from F.A.U. asked me to write an article for an Italian website about my experience in Italy. I asked him what subject I should discuss and he gave me \u201ccarta bianca.\u201d Well, the topic must have been on my mind because it came to me right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[49,156,52,28,15,327,444,14,352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}