{"id":1292,"date":"2010-05-08T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2010-05-22T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T07:39:21","slug":"forget-the-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Expo &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">a much more pressing and indeed interesting question is: how many polystyrene boxes can you get onto a chinese tricycle? And no, it&#8217;s not one of those jokes &#8230; You say 3? Perhaps 5? Pah &#8211; amateurs!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On yet another weekend trip to Shanghai, yes I do still love it, I finally had a camera on me to take a picture of what can only be seen in China: someone taking maximum advantage of a vehicle and overloading it with all sorts of stuff &#8230; and by stuff I mean polystyrene boxes, chairs, scrap, metal, paper, flowers &#8230; you name it, I&#8217;ve seen it crammed onto the back of a bike. And so, finally, here comes the proof: in Shanghai, if you know what you&#8217;re doing and you have a tricycle you can get <i>HUNDREDS<\/i> of boxes to fit on its back, sides and front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_0358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_0358-tm.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"157\" alt=\"IMG_0358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports of such sightings are scattered all over the blog, but you must understand how happy I was when I finally managed to take a picture of one. Also found out that this is the &#8216;delivery tricycle&#8217; for the local fish market &#8230; so all the boxes were full of raw fish waiting to be unpacked and sold on the market &#8230; yum! So if you&#8217;re thinking of getting a new car because the old one is just that little bit too small &#8230; consider getting a chinese tricycle! You&#8217;d be surprised as to how spacious they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a much more pressing and indeed interesting question is: how many polystyrene boxes can you get onto a chinese tricycle? And no, it&#8217;s not one of those jokes &#8230; You say 3? Perhaps 5? Pah &#8211; amateurs!<\/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":[7],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","tag-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}