{"id":238,"date":"2010-06-12T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T23:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2010-06-12T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T23:18:05","slug":"scenes-of-daily-life-in-changzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/06\/12\/scenes-of-daily-life-in-changzhou\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes of Daily Life in Changzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2006-september-390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" title=\"2006 September 390\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2006-september-390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hungry? \u00a0As the lunch hour approaches, an enterprising couple have set out lunches in anticipation of the hungry passers-by that will soon stop for a bite. \u00a0Fast food the traditional style . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2006-september-389.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240\" title=\"2006 September 389\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2006-september-389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about being retired is the ability to take time to play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2006-september-294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-241\" title=\"2006 September 294\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2006-september-294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things we found that we needed in order to enjoy daily life in Changzhou, was a mobile phone. \u00a0The mobile becomes the lifeline for all in Changzhou, not only the Foreign Teachers. \u00a0Picking out a phone and learning about its capabilities was made easier for us with the help of one of our cooperating Chinese teachers. \u00a0Sarah Mao told us much more than we needed to know over an enjoyable tea break after mobile shopping. \u00a0After forgetting most of what she tried to teach us, we began the real process of learning to use a mobile phone that was also enabled for Chinese texting. \u00a0Now, we were all set to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungry? \u00a0As the lunch hour approaches, an enterprising couple have set out lunches in anticipation of the hungry passers-by that will soon stop for a bite. \u00a0Fast food the traditional style . . . One of the great things about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/06\/12\/scenes-of-daily-life-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":[23,28,33,38,49,50,56,75,90,100,103,123,150,217],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-i-t","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-communicate","tag-communication","tag-cooperating-teacher","tag-esl-blog","tag-fast-food","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-ft","tag-jiangsu","tag-mobile-phone","tag-teaching-esl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}