{"id":79,"date":"2006-05-01T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.226.17\/?p=79"},"modified":"2024-07-13T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T21:01:34","slug":"you-know-the-dust-has-blown-in-from-china-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"You know the dust has blown in from China when:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning dawns bright and clear except for the clear part, not so much. This was the view from my hotel room yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>By lunchtime your contacts feel like they&#8217;ve been in for sixteen hours. <\/p>\n<p>You blow your nose and get black gunk. Mind you, you don&#8217;t do this in public in Asia&#8211;they don&#8217;t mind sniffing at all, but think blowing is disgusting, which is the exact opposite of how I was raised&#8211;so think twice before ordering that wonderfully-piping-painfully-hot spicy soup. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably read in the news about dust storms from China affecting Japan and Korea. It&#8217;s true. Deforestation and lack of forestation in the first place combined with strong winds have been making Asia one gritty, dusty place lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning dawns bright and clear except for the clear part, not so much. This was the view from my hotel room yesterday. By lunchtime your contacts feel like they&#8217;ve been in for sixteen hours. You blow your nose and get black gunk. Mind you, you don&#8217;t do this in public in Asia&#8211;they don&#8217;t mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}