{"id":430,"date":"2010-09-15T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T09:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-09-15T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T09:21:13","slug":"getting-ready-for-a-bit-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/15\/getting-ready-for-a-bit-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for a Bit of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03792.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-431 alignnone\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another scene from a walk down Jingling Lu as we headed towards our home which is about a kilometer to the north. \u00a0This is the Changzhou Grand Theatre, the site of a symphony performance that we will be attending on Friday evening as well as a few other performances in October. \u00a0As you can tell, the Changzhou City Hall buildings are in the background. \u00a0In the foreground are two little dinosaur figures which are also found in other locations around the city. \u00a0Most posters advertising the upcoming Jiangsu Athletic Games carry their images as well. \u00a0My best guess is that they are the Changzhou mascots for the games as Changzhou is home to China&#8217;s premiere Dinosaur Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03794.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-432 alignnone\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03794.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With any luck, we will get tickets to see the opening ceremonies of these games. \u00a0When I find out the names of the mascots, I will pass that information on. \u00a0Life in Changzhou is beginning to pick up speed and soon we will be swamped with full teaching loads, extra teaching assignments, lectures, performances, and trying to fit in some festival time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another scene from a walk down Jingling Lu as we headed towards our home which is about a kilometer to the north. \u00a0This is the Changzhou Grand Theatre, the site of a symphony performance that we will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/15\/getting-ready-for-a-bit-of-culture\/\">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":[3,23,28,29,33,75,100,123,217,238],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-17th-jiangsu-games","tag-c-i-t","tag-changzhou","tag-changzhou-grand-theatre","tag-china","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-jiangsu","tag-teaching-esl","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}