{"id":16399,"date":"2025-12-02T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tst.wordpress.realogydev.com\/cartus\/uncategorized\/explorers-factor-its-who-we-are\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:34:50","slug":"explorers-factor-its-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tst.wordpress.realogydev.com\/cartus\/insights\/blog\/explorers-factor-its-who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Explorer\u2019s Factor\u201d: It\u2019s Who We Are!"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,36,37],"tags":[38,39,40,41],"class_list":["post-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-intercultural-and-language","category-policy-and-program-guidance","tag-assignees","tag-expatriates","tag-explorers-factor","tag-intercultural-language-solutions"],"acf":{"blog_type":"Short Blog","category_type":"Blogs","dont_display_published_date_in_blog_landing_tile":false,"hero_image":16402,"story_section_topic":"","story_section_description":"","rich_text_content1":"As I am writing to you from a plane high in the clouds, I hope you will find useful the information I am about to share regarding a topic very dear to me: being an expat and a global corporate citizen.\n\nI still remember the first time I lived abroad. 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