{"id":136,"date":"2008-10-26T18:42:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-12-10T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T19:53:05","slug":"sea-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/10\/sea-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea of Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds of people are everywhere we go.\u00a0 We very much stand out as the foreigners people think we are.\u00a0 Hawking vendors and beggars literally chase us down the street. Taking a taxi ride through the city was more terrifying than the wildest ride at Disney. You take your life in your hands just trying to walk across the street.\u00a0 Now every time I walk in front of a taxi I run for my life; I know how they drive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_138\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010276-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138\" title=\"p1010276-640x480\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010276-640x480-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Across the river from our hotel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010276-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010276-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Across the river from our hotel<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_139\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010360-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139\" title=\"p1010360-640x480\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010360-640x480-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Market place\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010360-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010360-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marketplace<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_145\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010400-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145\" title=\"p1010400-640x480\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010400-640x480-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010400-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p1010400-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds of people are everywhere we go.\u00a0 We very much stand out as the foreigners people think we are.\u00a0 Hawking vendors and beggars literally chase us down the street. Taking a taxi ride through the city was more terrifying than the wildest ride at Disney. You take your life in your hands just trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}