{"id":256,"date":"2010-08-03T08:35:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-08-03T08:35:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T14:35:03","slug":"air-plane-tickets-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/08\/03\/air-plane-tickets-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Plane Tickets Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The airplane tickets have been purchased. \u00a0In less than four weeks we will be back in Changzhou. \u00a0We will first fly to Toronto for a visit with Dustin and his family before flying to Shanghai on August 29th. \u00a0Strange how from Toronto we will spend five less hours on planes and in airports than if we had flown from Saskatoon. \u00a0As well, the cost is less from Saskatoon to fly to Toronto and then on to Shanghai. \u00a0When planning your flying journey, it pays to consider options that logic says is not possible.<\/p>\n

The scene above was found on our route from Sunshine Gardens (our home base) to a shopping centre called DaRenFa as well as to the train station. \u00a0We knew we were getting close to the shopping centre which very close to HongMei Park as well, when we turned the corner at this Bridgestone tire shop. \u00a0Some landmarks stand out giving one a sense that one knows where one is. \u00a0Landmarking is a necessary skill to have if one is wanting to wander in various cities in China and in other countries. \u00a0Fortunately, I have a built in mapping sector in my brain allowing me to landmark almost subconsciously so that finding our way back to where we started becomes easy, even if we end up walking on new streets all the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The airplane tickets have been purchased. \u00a0In less than four weeks we will be back in Changzhou. \u00a0We will first fly to Toronto for a visit with Dustin and his family before flying to Shanghai on August 29th. \u00a0Strange how … Continue reading →<\/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":[28,33,50,75,100,103,123,217,238,245,267,83],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-communication","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-ft","tag-jiangsu","tag-teaching-esl","tag-xinbei","tag-yangguang-huayuan","tag-267","tag-83"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}