{"id":6505,"date":"2013-09-18T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2013-09-18T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T20:39:37","slug":"only-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2013\/09\/only-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Only in China!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChengDu&#8217;s summer can be scorching. Temperature can reach 100&deg;F (40&deg;C).  As a Seattle resident who&#8217;s used to much milder weather, I cannot really imagine living here without air conditioning. Even for local that commute with a scooter, that blazing sun can be a real torture.<\/p>\n<p>Necessity is the mother of invention.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/scooter.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have witnessed this thing at work.  ChengDu&#8217;s city traffic is generally slow and the there is no gusting wind to blow it apart.  This apparatus is not really expensive and meant be to replaced in a year or two anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Note the parasol\/umbrella is not circular in shape.  The extension covers the backseat passenger and also give it a cool aerofoil shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChengDu&#8217;s summer can be scorching. Temperature can reach 100&deg;F (40&deg;C). As a Seattle resident who&#8217;s used to much milder weather, I cannot really imagine living here without air conditioning. Even for local that commute with a scooter, that blazing sun &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2013\/09\/only-in-china\/\">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":[],"categories":[77,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}