{"id":674,"date":"2009-04-27T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-04-27T07:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T14:13:55","slug":"three-gorges-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/three-gorges-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Gorges Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th, we started with a side trip to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchinaguide.com\/river\/yangtze_attraction\/snowjadecave.htm\">Snow Jade Cave<\/a> at Fengdu.  Considering that pretty much every nightmare I have involves confined spaces, I enjoyed it.  (I&#8217;m not actually claustrophobic, I just dream that I am.)  The geology in the cave was really pretty cool: hopefully some of the pictures come out well.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, there was kite flying from the top deck of the boat.  Watching 20 kites fly above a cruise ship is really quite pretty.  Several kites were lost to overhead powerlines (by others) and one just got lost overboard (by Kat): I prefer to think of these as a free kite for some kids downstream somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>On our last night on the boat, I slept badly, snored, and kept Kat up.  Good times.<\/p>\n<p>Today we disembarked, took a quick tour of Chongqing.  Chongqing is the largest city in the world if you count like the Chinese government (or 5 million if you <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chongqing\">count<\/a> the people that live in the &#8220;city&#8221; part of the city), and we had like two hours to look at it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, to Xian where we are now.  Tomorrow, we see the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terracotta_Army\">Terra Cotta Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th, we started with a side trip to see the Snow Jade Cave at Fengdu. Considering that pretty much every nightmare I have involves confined spaces, I enjoyed it. (I&#8217;m not actually claustrophobic, I just dream that I am.) The geology in the cave was really pretty cool: hopefully some of the pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}