{"id":146,"date":"2010-05-25T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2010-05-25T09:51:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:51:58","slug":"doing-it-the-old-fashioned-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/25\/doing-it-the-old-fashioned-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing it the Old-Fashioned Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147\" title=\"2006 September 087\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided not to crop this photo in order to make the people larger as I think the effect of the whole photo says it all. \u00a0What you are seeing here is exactly the way it was. \u00a0Two men were busy using sledge-hammers in order to knock down walls. \u00a0This seems so backwards when the equipment to do this the modern way exists within the city. \u00a0So why? \u00a0Why are these men doing the work over a period of weeks when a machine could finish the demolition job in a day?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is actually quite simple. \u00a0In taking the buildings apart this way, more material is salvaged. \u00a0The modern way to demolish a building costs the building&#8217;s owner money. \u00a0The traditional way gives the building owner money as well as giving the men doing the demolishing money. \u00a0The issue of speed is not as critical most of the time. \u00a0And in the process, everyone comes out a winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided not to crop this photo in order to make the people larger as I think the effect of the whole photo says it all. \u00a0What you are seeing here is exactly the way it was. \u00a0Two men were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/25\/doing-it-the-old-fashioned-way\/\">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":[28,33,38,49,50,62,75,100,103,123,217,238],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-communicate","tag-communication","tag-demolition","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-ft","tag-jiangsu","tag-teaching-esl","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}