{"id":1064,"date":"2009-09-16T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-09-16T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:18:21","slug":"you-know-youre-back-in-ningbo-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"You know you&#8217;re back in Ningbo when:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n  please tick as appropriate &#8211; answers on a postcard*<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n    \n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>it&#8217;s humid and over 30&#8217;C<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>the taxi driver thinks he&#8217;s in a Grand Prix race and you&#8217;re life flashes before your eyes<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>queuing is a concept that &#8230; no, it&#8217;s no concept at all<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>conversations are held at 100 dB higher than usual<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>men walk around with their bare bellies hanging out from under their shirts to cool off<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*just in case you need proof (with added bonus picture):<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC01138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC01138-tm.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" alt=\"DSC01138\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC01092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC01092-tm.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" alt=\"DSC01092\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC01146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC01146-tm.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" alt=\"DSC01146\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>please tick as appropriate &#8211; answers on a postcard*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}