{"id":639,"date":"2008-10-14T21:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=639"},"modified":"2008-10-16T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T02:05:58","slug":"beijing-peoples-republic-of-china-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch #19: Beijing, Peoples Republic of China &#8211; Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dragon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-640 aligncenter\" title=\"dragon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dragon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dragon-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dragon.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Niahao! (Hello) I can hardly believe it&#8217;s been only seven months since my maiden trip to China. In the spring, Beijing was abuzz with Olympic<br \/>\nfever&#8211; now that the party is over it seems the city is basking in the<br \/>\nafter glow. This uncharacterically clear sunny weather is perfect for<br \/>\nsightseeing and walking about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-641\" title=\"hotel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/hotel-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hotel Recommendation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve return to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjfriendshiphotel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing Friendship Hotel<\/a> a spectacular and incredibly affordable 5-star hotel. Traditional Chinese architecture combined with upscale amenties, well appointed suites and convienent location garners high marks in my book. The daily rate for a deluxe suite is $190, tax included!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"skyegallery\/China\/Beijing - Fall 2008\">Photo Album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niahao! (Hello) I can hardly believe it&#8217;s been only seven months since my maiden trip to China. In the spring, Beijing was abuzz with Olympic fever&#8211; now that the party is over it seems the city is basking in the after glow. This uncharacterically clear sunny weather is perfect for sightseeing and walking about. Hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dispatches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c8Xx-aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}