{"id":104,"date":"2010-05-12T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-05-12T11:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:05:45","slug":"green-spaces-in-changzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/12\/green-spaces-in-changzhou\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Spaces in Changzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100\" title=\"2006 September 011\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being from Canada, a land that is basically empty of people in many places and where nature runs free, it was important for us to find &#8220;green&#8221; spaces in the city. \u00a0As we stretched our journeys beyond the first boundaries we set for ourselves once we became &#8220;familiar&#8221; with our neigbourhood, we found quite a number of small green spaces such as this one near China Dinosaur Park. \u00a0Of course, this area is a landscaped area. \u00a0Not much land is left &#8220;wild,&#8221; especially in the middle of a city. \u00a0Not all the green spaces in Changzhou would be parks as many newer housing projects and even commercial projects are putting a focus on making sure that nature is a\u00a0prominent\u00a0feature as people thrive better in settings that honour nature.<\/p>\n<p>The word for park in Chinese is\u00a0yu\u00e1n &#8211;\u00a0\u56ed . The symbol is also used for garden and orchard. \u00a0This was one of my first words as we lived in a gated community called Sunshine Garden -Y\u00e1ngGu\u0101ng Hu\u0101Yu\u00e1n\u00a0&#8211; \u9633\u5149\u82b1\u56ed. \u00a0And as we wander around the compound, we thought the name was well earned. \u00a0Here is one photo of our small gated community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-august-093.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105\" title=\"2006 August 093\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-august-093.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being from Canada, a land that is basically empty of people in many places and where nature runs free, it was important for us to find &#8220;green&#8221; spaces in the city. \u00a0As we stretched our journeys beyond the first boundaries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/12\/green-spaces-in-changzhou\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,38,41,49,50,74,75,100,103,107,123,141,211,217,238,245,247,258,83],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-language","tag-communicate","tag-communication","tag-esl","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-ft","tag-green-spaces","tag-jiangsu","tag-mandarin","tag-sunshine-garden","tag-teaching-esl","tag-xinbei","tag-yangguang-huayuan","tag-yuan","tag-258","tag-83"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}