{"id":7762,"date":"2020-01-26T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2020-01-26T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:15:10","slug":"america-is-overrun-with-bathrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7762","title":{"rendered":"America Is Overrun With Bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/01\/why-do-american-houses-have-so-many-bathrooms\/605338\/\">Derek Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>merican exceptionalism takes on many forms, both flattering (our immigrant-founded start-ups) and unfortunate (our health-care prices). But perhaps no part of life in the United States is more unambiguously exceptional than this: We have so many damn bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>And the world wants to know why. The internet is filled with long threads, on sites such as Quora and Reddit, in which users swap theories on \u201cWhat\u2019s the American obsession with bathrooms all about?\u201d and \u201cWhy do houses in the US have so many bathrooms?\u201d \u201cThere are so many incredible America decadences that are mind boggling to foreigners when we first arrive here, and the sheer number of bathrooms in suburban houses is very high on the list,&#8221; Tom Gara, an Australian who edits opinion pieces for BuzzFeed News, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s love affair with private washrooms emerges from the country\u2019s most obvious gift\u2014an abundance of land and an eagerness to develop it. The typical new single-family house in the U.S. is twice the size of the average urban or suburban dwelling in the European Union\u2014more than 2,000 square feet versus approximately 1,000 square feet. Compared with their overseas peers, Americans simply have more space to wash up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Thompson: merican exceptionalism takes on many forms, both flattering (our immigrant-founded start-ups) and unfortunate (our health-care prices). But perhaps no part of life in the United States is more unambiguously exceptional than this: We have so many damn bathrooms. And the world wants to know why. The internet is filled with long threads, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}