{"id":141,"date":"2006-12-28T20:50:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T00:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/12\/28\/back-in-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T00:01:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T04:01:53","slug":"back-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/12\/28\/back-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m certainly not home, but it felt comforting to stride through Sheung Wan this evening.<\/p>\n<p>My passport has been used through page &#8220;I&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing too eventful happened in Bangkok while I was there: however, an earthquake cut quite a few important cables off Taiwan leaving all of East Asia with serious trans-Pacific connectivity issues.  Ships are, supposedly, on the way.  How un-modern.<\/p>\n<p>My flight wasn&#8217;t bad.  A fight nearly broke out over AirAsia&#8217;s &#8220;no outside food and beverages so we can sell them to you marked up&#8221; policy, but landing wasn&#8217;t too delayed.  The scenic AP1 bus between airport and ferry terminal in Macau wasn&#8217;t fun because the sky was miserable, but the weather is temperate here (not cold like Lao or burning up like Bangkok) and I don&#8217;t have a fever.  <\/p>\n<p>This is guaranteed to be an interesting New Year&#8217;s Day: the first time I get to pick someone up at an airport instead of begging my way to or from one.  Maybe I&#8217;ll find something interesting on the Eve too&#8230; you&#8217;d think Hong Kong would have something interesting to offer for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m certainly not home, but it felt comforting to stride through Sheung Wan this evening. My passport has been used through page &#8220;I&#8221;. Nothing too eventful happened in Bangkok while I was there: however, an earthquake cut quite a few important cables off Taiwan leaving all of East Asia with serious trans-Pacific connectivity issues. Ships &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/12\/28\/back-in-hong-kong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back in Hong Kong<\/span><\/a><\/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":[125],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-airasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}