{"id":76,"date":"2010-05-07T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-05-07T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:34:41","slug":"appearances-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/07\/appearances-are-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Appearances are Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" title=\"2006 September 009\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changzhou is not famous in the same sense that Suzhou, Hangzhou or Nanjing are in the province of Jiangsu, yet it is a city that is trying hard to become more beautiful, more friendly and more modern. \u00a0While we were in Changzhou for two years, we saw people working on repairing and cleaning up the myriad of canals that wind their way through this city. \u00a0As the canals got cleaned up, new apartment complexes would rise along its their banks promising a more comfortable life in the city, a life that still connects with the land and the water. \u00a0Yes, it is about appearances. \u00a0But, as we know, when one looks better on the outside, one begins to feel better about oneself. \u00a0That is even more so for a city than it is for a person. \u00a0People take more pride in place when that place is more attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changzhou is not famous in the same sense that Suzhou, Hangzhou or Nanjing are in the province of Jiangsu, yet it is a city that is trying hard to become more beautiful, more friendly and more modern. \u00a0While we were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/07\/appearances-are-important\/\">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":[25,28,33,74,100,103,123,238],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canal","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-esl","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-ft","tag-jiangsu","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}