{"id":997,"date":"2009-06-06T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T10:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=997"},"modified":"2009-06-06T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T10:42:52","slug":"the-industrious-and-untiring-indolence-of-the-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"The industrious and untiring indolence of the Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These pictures were taken over the period of 3 days during my travels in China &#8211; Xi&#8217;An, Shanghai and Beijing to be exact, so it is safe to say that this is not a regional phenomenon. And funnily enough, they were not taken during lunch time, or perhaps in the evening either, but in bright daylight, often at their work place &#8211; one whilst buying tickets for the great wall. Economic boom anyone? &#8230; And &#8230; they can sleep on anything &#8230; anywhere!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00321.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00321-tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"DSC00321\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00843-tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"DSC00843\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00620-tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"DSC00620\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00860.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00860-tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"DSC00860\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00858-tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"DSC00858\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc01737.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc01737-tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"DSC01737\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n  \n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n  More to come, I&#8217;m sure &#8230;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00856-tm.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"165\" alt=\"DSC00856\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These pictures were taken over the period of 3 days during my travels in China &#8211; Xi&#8217;An, Shanghai and Beijing to be exact, so it is safe to say that this is not a regional phenomenon. And funnily enough, they were not taken during lunch time, or perhaps in the evening either, but in bright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}