{"id":884,"date":"2010-05-28T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T17:55:17","slug":"pointless-productivity-or-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/28\/pointless-productivity-or-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointless Productivity, or Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we were in Changzhou, there was a lot of demolition activity and an unbelievable amount of new construction. \u00a0It seemed as though Changzhou was in a race to become a modern, cosmopolitan centre. \u00a0It seemed that everywhere one went, large trucks hauling away dirt and debris went whizzing by. \u00a0Of course, some of the debris would fall off the heavily loaded trucks. \u00a0It was then the task of street workers to clean up this debris.<\/p>\n

In this photo, these two elderly women make the most of their day while working together. \u00a0It didn’t seem to bother them that moments after scraping the mud off the street and sweeping it up, another set of trucks would spill more mud forcing them to repeat the process over and over again, day after day until that particular stretch of road stopped being a hauling road. \u00a0It is work, and work is good. \u00a0In the end, it seemed that keeping busy and earning money to support family is all that becomes important. \u00a0It didn’t matter that the task might appear hopeless or pointless to some outside observer. \u00a0 An outside observer such as myself judges from a different frame of reference. \u00a0We all see and interpret the world from unique and individual lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we were in Changzhou, there was a lot of demolition activity and an unbelievable amount of new construction. \u00a0It seemed as though Changzhou was in a race to become a modern, cosmopolitan centre. \u00a0It seemed that everywhere one went, … 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":[6,28,33,38,50,51,62,75,100,103,123,174,185,217,233,238],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appearances","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-communication","tag-construction","tag-demolition","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-ft","tag-jiangsu","tag-point-of-view","tag-reconstruction","tag-teaching-esl","tag-way-of-life","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}