{"id":322,"date":"2010-09-01T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2010-09-01T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:11:26","slug":"changzhou-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/01\/changzhou-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Changzhou City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dsc03429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-323\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dsc03429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since this blog is about teaching in Changzhou, I thought that it would be a good idea to present a photo of Changzhou City Hall. \u00a0You have to remember that the city has a governance area that is quite large, a population of more than three and a half million people. \u00a0You can check out more about Changzhou\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Changzhou\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I took this photo this morning on our walk to the main campus which is close to City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Once we finished making arrangements with one of the FAO staff for obtaining a new cell phone and opening up our bank accounts, we headed over to the Metro Shopping Centre which is a lot like a super Walmart centre. \u00a0This store is where many ex-pats buy western style groceries and other things such as electronics and clothing. \u00a0For us, it was about getting a few basics and some rice. \u00a0 We tend to do most of our shopping in small shops closer to our apartment.<\/p>\n<p>With still a bit of jet lag to overcome and high temperatures in sweltering humidity, we are still taking it easy until our first staff meeting on Friday. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be back with more soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this blog is about teaching in Changzhou, I thought that it would be a good idea to present a photo of Changzhou City Hall. \u00a0You have to remember that the city has a governance area that is quite large, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/01\/changzhou-city-hall\/\">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":[28,33,44,75,77,123,133,145],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-city-hall","tag-esl-blog","tag-ex-pat","tag-jiangsu","tag-laowai","tag-metro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}