{"id":2454,"date":"2019-09-14T01:08:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T01:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2019-09-14T01:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T01:08:55","slug":"tianjin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/tianjin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianjin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1568416514-picsay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1568416514-picsay-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1568416514-picsay-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1568416514-picsay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1568416514-picsay-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1568416514-picsay-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1568416514-picsay.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Beijing South railway station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/smaller1568418113-picsay.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/smaller1568418113-picsay-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2456\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">First class seats on China&#8217;s fabulous high-speed trains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_091754-picsay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_091754-picsay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_091754-picsay.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_091754-picsay-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_091754-picsay-768x612.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tianjin is a vibrant modern city with a long history.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_152900-picsay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_152900-picsay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_152900-picsay.jpg 856w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_152900-picsay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_152900-picsay-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The city gets it current name from a historical event in a military campaign of Zhu Di<br>\u6731\u68e3 &#8211; the man who became the third emperor of the Ming dynasty &#8211; Yongle \u6c38\u6a02. <br>As emperor, it was he who built the Forbidden City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_131938-picsay.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_131938-picsay-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2459\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I visited the Tianjin museum looking for additional information<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_120939-picsay.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_120939-picsay-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2460\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zhu Di and his troops cross the Hai He (river) on his way South to overthrow his nephew, the second Ming emperor. (Note that in Chinese they use the word for river when speaking of canals)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_120830-picsay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190914_120830-picsay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_120830-picsay.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20190914_120830-picsay-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Stele (engraved stone monument) erected to commemorate the &#8220;river crossing&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"remoji_bar\"><div class=\"remoji_add_container\" data-remoji-id=\"2454\" data-remoji-type=\"post\"><div class=\"remoji_add_icon\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"remoji_error_bar\" data-remoji-id=\"2454\" data-remoji-type=\"post\" style=\"display: none;\">Error happened.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Error happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}