{"id":719,"date":"2010-10-30T19:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T11:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2010-10-30T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T11:45:29","slug":"getting-ready-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/10\/30\/getting-ready-for-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc05213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-721\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc05213.jpg?w=222\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc05212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-720\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc05212.jpg?w=241\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Yes, Changzhou is getting ready for Halloween too. \u00a0Well, the truth be told, it isn&#8217;t much of a deal at all. \u00a0It is more of a store thing and something for kids in schools &#8211; no trick or treating in China as far as we can tell.<\/p>\n<p>Billboards at bus stops are advertising a big party in Dinosaur Park for the high school and college crowd, a party where they get to listen to a Korean band called Super Junior. \u00a0While walking in Hong Mei Park today we met some college kids who wanted to practice their English. \u00a0Of course the topic of Halloween came up and they let us know that Chinese youth are more interested in celebrating western world festivals than their own Chinese festivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc05308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-728\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc05308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"529\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But something tells me things are going to change even more. \u00a0Seeing this little person with his mom and seeing all the costumes and junk in the stores is creating a lot of pressure on the rest to catch up with the times if they want to be modern. \u00a0We wonder what Halloween will look like here in Changzhou in ten years? \u00a0Will trick or treating ever come to China? \u00a0Somehow, it just doesn&#8217;t seem to be too likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Changzhou is getting ready for Halloween too. \u00a0Well, the truth be told, it isn&#8217;t much of a deal at all. \u00a0It is more of a store thing and something for kids in schools &#8211; no trick or treating in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/10\/30\/getting-ready-for-halloween\/\">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":[28,33,38,41,58,75,100,109,123,209,217],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-language","tag-culture","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-halloween","tag-jiangsu","tag-students","tag-teaching-esl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}