{"id":4730,"date":"2012-08-29T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2012-08-29T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T11:12:02","slug":"wednesdayish-evening-baking-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/08\/29\/wednesdayish-evening-baking-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesdayish evening &#8211; baking in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from one of the biggest cities in the world. I&#8217;m here in Beijing doing a mix of technical vitality and customer meetings. It&#8217;ll be a short trip, but i don&#8217;t mind.. I love coming here.. And the of shift hours and long flights are conducive to getting lots of working and thinking .. and even thinking about working done . In fact.. I got on the flight around noon and with the exception of one break to stand up, 2 quick meals and about 30 min of sleep, i worked the entire time.. almost 13 solid hours.. and it felt good..\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t really feel like id&#8217; left home at 4AM.. but here&#8217;s proof (see the clock and beautiful wife ? )<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had some nice and nerdy seat mates. one of whom had even brought a compass to see if he could figure out when we&#8217;d crossed over the pole..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912005.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912011.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I arrived a little sleepy, but refreshed., or as refreshed as someone can be when it&#8217;s 95 degrees and humid.You could even <em>see<\/em> that it was hot an humid as we landed<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter met me at the airport and took me to my hotel.. (an hours drive through tough traffic).. I spent a few more hours working..<\/p>\n<p>Then I took a run on some of the side streets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912013.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It had cooled down to about 90 and humid, lots of cars and wicked bad smog&#8230; the sun looked like fall the air was so red .. .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but as soon as I ducked down the side streets, the mood changed<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912018.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912019.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These streets held all the embassies. I saw nigeria, camaroon, Switzerland, sweden, denmark, madagasgar, cpmgo, libya, iran, arentina<\/center><center><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912021.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>even got a picture of the libyan embassy before I was shoed away by the guard..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912022.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912025.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912026.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912028.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and this trick shot of the iranian embassy<\/center><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912029.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><center>this part of the city ir really pretty !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912030.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912031.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912033.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912035.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912036.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912038.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><center>no sure he&#8217;s supposed to be swimming.. but it looked nice with the heat !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912041.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and this guy was fishing !!!\u00a0 what kind of stuff would be in that river ?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912042.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the run back home took me by some curious stores..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912043.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912044.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912045.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912046.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2912\/aug2912048.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><center><\/center><center>now I&#8217;m meeting my firend JY for a quick dinner.. then I&#8217;m coming back for soem much needed sleep.<\/center><center>more rom here tomorrow.<\/center><center><\/center><center>nite all, nite sam<\/center><center>me<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from one of the biggest cities in the world. I&#8217;m here in Beijing doing a mix of technical vitality and customer meetings. It&#8217;ll be a short trip, but i don&#8217;t mind.. I love coming here.. And the of shift hours and long flights are conducive to getting lots of working and thinking .. and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/08\/29\/wednesdayish-evening-baking-in-beijing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesdayish evening &#8211; baking in Beijing<\/span> <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":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[571],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-backing-in-beijing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}