{"id":207,"date":"2007-06-08T20:06:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/06\/08\/why-i-really-like-china\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:03:02","slug":"why-i-really-like-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/06\/08\/why-i-really-like-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I really like China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last day in Kyoto, I saw the mostly worthless (but free) application-required tour of the not-so-old Imperial Palace.  Yawn.<\/p>\n<p>More yawns followed during the night bus ride to Tokyo (nobody had a seatmate this time&#8230; excellent) and as I staggered through the early morning of Tokyo.  In Tokyo, I wandered around Ueno before anything opened and decided I wasn&#8217;t up to staggering through a temple district in Asakusa; I went to the airport early.  There, the only thing noteworthy was a Japanese crepe.  I ate it.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Shanghai, though, back from the abysmally-located airport and checked into my hostel, I am reminded of what makes China a great travel destination for me.  Walking down the alley where the hostel is located, I see the tell-tale small wooden baskets that can mean&#8230; well, a few things, but I hope they can mean just one thing: <i>jiaozi<\/i>.  And they do.  And one basket of eight is 3 kwai&#8212;about 40 cents&#8212;well under half the cost of, say, a can of Coke in Japan, and about the same cost as that can in China.<\/p>\n<p>And life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last day in Kyoto, I saw the mostly worthless (but free) application-required tour of the not-so-old Imperial Palace. Yawn. More yawns followed during the night bus ride to Tokyo (nobody had a seatmate this time&#8230; excellent) and as I staggered through the early morning of Tokyo. In Tokyo, I wandered around Ueno before anything [&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":[39,45,38,40],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-japan","tag-kyoto","tag-prc","tag-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}