{"id":204,"date":"2007-06-01T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/06\/01\/since-my-last-post-in-shanghai\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:03:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:03:31","slug":"since-my-last-post-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/06\/01\/since-my-last-post-in-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Since my last post in Shanghai&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pretty much wandered through the French concession for a day and a half or so.  It was nice and&#8230; <em>leafy<\/em>.  I like leafy streets, and they tend to be in short supply in this half of the world.<\/p>\n<p>I came down with a nasty little head cold on the morning of my departure, but have so far avoided provoking an international quarantine incident.  This has limited my picture-taking and, for that matter, what I can remember to blog about (see above summary for an example).<\/p>\n<p>Review of the Shanghai airport maglev, in three key words:<\/p>\n<p>1. Cool.<br \/>\n2. Whoa. (this is the part where it goes 268 mph)<br \/>\n3. Over? It just started&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The flight to NRT was good, considering the cold, because I got an aisle exit seat without even asking.  I think it might have been pure random luck, because it looked like they had printed all the boarding passes beforehand.  Maybe the consolidator bookers at elong are just extra-devious.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving was pretty painless, despite an answer to the question about cash holdings that made me look like an international drug runner (I brought all my big bills of left-over foreign currency to change).  The hostel seems decent.<\/p>\n<p>Why can we not steal these nifty Japanese household tools?  Shower doors that do not let a drop of water past, drains that do not clog, automatic lights where they make sense&#8230; sigh.  <\/p>\n<p>I have spent the day wandering around Ginza and Shinjuku (so far) with my mouth hanging open.  Maybe it is the cold, or maybe the rumors of Japan-caused befuddlement were all true.  It is hard for me to explain why, without the use of a healthy mind or the apostrophe I cannot find on this keyboard, but things are very (subjectively) weird for me right now.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like finding accomodations in Kyoto is going to be major trouble.  I may have to base myself in Osaka.  <\/p>\n<p>Smoking policy is weird here.  It is banned on a lot of streets and allowed in a lot of private businesses.  Maybe this is what Hong Kong was aiming for.<\/p>\n<p>Cough, ok, back to wandering around.  Cough cough.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pretty much wandered through the French concession for a day and a half or so. It was nice and&#8230; leafy. I like leafy streets, and they tend to be in short supply in this half of the world. I came down with a nasty little head cold on the morning of my departure, but [&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":[39,46,38,40,47],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-japan","tag-maglev","tag-prc","tag-shanghai","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}