{"id":170,"date":"2007-03-03T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/03\/03\/taipei-part-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:57:29","slug":"taipei-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/03\/03\/taipei-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taipei, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Palace Museum (national as in China, so there&#8217;s a lot of stuff there) was great, but I discovered that the breezy, empty transportation system of mid-weekdays turns into a crowded, slow, snarled mess on weekends.  After waiting for around an hour to catch any bus, I curtailed my schedule for today.<\/p>\n<p>No pictures in the museum, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m coming down with something (well, I was yesterday) so I&#8217;m going to try to take it easy tonight, going out to get a light dinner at the most.  And maybe tomorrow.  I&#8217;ll at least try to see Danshui though; if I stick to the MRT the traffic problem will stay manageable, I think.  I&#8217;ll try to leave around 5 p.m. tomorrow for the airport, so that should give me good time for a lazy morning, checking out barely on time, and zipping off to the shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Palace Museum (national as in China, so there&#8217;s a lot of stuff there) was great, but I discovered that the breezy, empty transportation system of mid-weekdays turns into a crowded, slow, snarled mess on weekends. After waiting for around an hour to catch any bus, I curtailed my schedule for today. No pictures [&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":[65,66],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}