{"id":130,"date":"2006-12-07T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/12\/07\/shenzhen-embraces-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:15:19","slug":"shenzhen-embraces-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/12\/07\/shenzhen-embraces-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shenzhen embraces the world !&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is little detail because I have to spend my time on a childish &#8220;course journal&#8221; for a final-year politics course.  Grumble, grumble.<\/p>\n<p>As I suspected, I ended up gawking around Shenzhen on Wednesday instead of taking a bus to Yangshuo.<\/p>\n<p>The border fortifications between the HKSAR and the Mainland are just as imposing as they&#8217;ve been hyped up to be.<\/p>\n<p>I took the metro (with nifty electronic tokens like Bangkok) out near the end of the line and surfaced in an alternate reality: the &#8220;Overseas Chinese Town&#8221; development.  It was pretty nice, leafy, uncrowded, etc.  All cars, very few bikes.  Private bus network.  Not gated though, as far as I could tell.<\/p>\n<p>Going to Wal-Mart in China is one of the more unexpected surreal experiences I&#8217;ve had.  I&#8217;ll post more about that when I deal with the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping it simple now: no travel until Tuesday when I fly to Bangkok and do my first solo backpacking since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is little detail because I have to spend my time on a childish &#8220;course journal&#8221; for a final-year politics course. Grumble, grumble. As I suspected, I ended up gawking around Shenzhen on Wednesday instead of taking a bus to Yangshuo. The border fortifications between the HKSAR and the Mainland are just as imposing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68,54,41],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-lingnan","tag-lowu","tag-shenzhen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}