{"id":872,"date":"2009-04-05T08:53:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T00:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=872"},"modified":"2009-04-18T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T05:44:45","slug":"airing-clean-laundry-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Airing clean laundry in public &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite all the signs pointing towards spring and a turn in weather, my last entry might have been a little preemptive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->It has got a little cold again*, the sun is out but the wind is chilly &#8211; this time last year it was nice and sunny, but most importantly warm &#8230; In spite of the polar temperatures, which have made me dig out my winder coat again, China still plays out its life on the streets &#8230; public parks, streets and courtyards are always in use for all sorts of mundane daily activities and despite the chill: business as usual: for example in Jing&#8217;An park women were doing their morning exercises: fan dancing and the cha cha cha &#8211; brilliant. I guess it keeps you warm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00204-tm.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00204\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00208-tm.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00208\" width=\"180\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Generally I am always amazed at how much life is lived on the streets here. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is consumed on the street corner whilst sat on plastic chairs with steaming hot food in woks in the vicinity, <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=445#more-445\">naps<\/a> are taken on bamboo chairs outside the front door of houses and laundry is aired\/dried in public &#8230; community feel or too much information?<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00261-tm.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00261\" width=\"180\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00264-tm.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00264\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">* as I revise this entry for publication, I am in Shanghai &#8230; the sun has come out and it promises to be a fabulous day!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the signs pointing towards spring and a turn in weather, my last entry might have been a little preemptive.<\/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-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}