{"id":22,"date":"2007-09-21T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T04:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-09-21T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T04:23:28","slug":"drew-sept21-a-few-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Drew: Sept.21, A Few Things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;You Don&#8217;t\u00a0See Everyday (at least outside of here)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0the Chinese equivalent of an 18-wheeler heading\u00a0at you in your lane\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>one lane of the road used for spreading corn, peanuts, and cotton<\/li>\n<li>a truck with several dogs in a cage rolling down the street blaring from a megaphone what at first I take as a warning to keep your pets contained, only to find out it&#8217;s advertising specialty meats.<\/li>\n<li>A sign in Chinese characters that reads &#8220;Please Don&#8217;t Pee in the Hallway.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Scores of couples dancing to\u00a0loudspeaker\u00a0music in the public square.<\/li>\n<li>The bill for a meal that has satisfactorily stuffed five ravenous twenty-somethings reading 58 RMB (c.$8)<\/li>\n<li>Older folks walking backwards.<\/li>\n<li>A motorcycle lady with 8 chickens hanging upside down in stocks across the back seat.<\/li>\n<li>The night streets\u00a0transformed with\u00a0stools and with tables,\u00a0covered with\u00a0broiled meats-on-a-stick, peanuts, soybeans, pickled vegetables, rice, and bottles of beer, all gone by morning.<\/li>\n<li>Weiguoren (foreigners).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;You Don&#8217;t\u00a0See Everyday (at least outside of here) \u00a0the Chinese equivalent of an 18-wheeler heading\u00a0at you in your lane\u00a0 one lane of the road used for spreading corn, peanuts, and cotton a truck with several dogs in a cage rolling down the street blaring from a megaphone what at first I take as a warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drews-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}