{"id":534,"date":"2006-05-25T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T23:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=159"},"modified":"2006-05-25T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T23:09:37","slug":"ni-hao-from-fuzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Ni hao from Fuzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mao says hao\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/DSCF0151.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"394\" height=\"295\" alt=\"Mao says hao\" id=\"image161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/DSCF0151.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings from China.  Mao says hello with a wave.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m experiencing all you&#8217;d expect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting foods, including an oyster as big as my fist at dinner last night.<\/li>\n<li>Insane traffic.  Much worse than my last trip here in 2005.  Chaos will continue as more and more people can afford cars.<\/li>\n<li>Pollution.  Everything is very grey, may not come across in photos.  I wouldn&#8217;t enjoy running outside.<\/li>\n<li>Strange exercises and dancing.  There is a large square out in front of the hotel, and it is full of people starting at 5:30 am, doing tai chi, backwards walking and <a title=\"dancing at 6am\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/DSCF0152.jpg\">dancing dancing dancing &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been too busy (and too tired &#8230; I tried to get a photo of the dark circles and bags under my eyes last night, but to no avail) to leave the hotel much &#8230; might get a chance to explore and shop a bit tonight.  Then it&#8217;s off to Beijing for the weekend, and up to Changchun for a few days next week before heading back home.<\/p>\n<p>Git yer requests for souveniers in now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from China. Mao says hello with a wave. I&#8217;m experiencing all you&#8217;d expect: Interesting foods, including an oyster as big as my fist at dinner last night. Insane traffic. Much worse than my last trip here in 2005. Chaos will continue as more and more people can afford cars. Pollution. Everything is very grey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[37,47,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}