{"id":3379,"date":"2024-05-03T02:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T02:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/Rando\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2025-04-03T03:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:42:02","slug":"friday-morning-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/friday-morning-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning fun in Xiamen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/Rando\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1714697656-picsay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1212\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I rode on a boat out into the waters between Xiamen and the (quite close&#8230; a short swim) series of small islands that are part of Fujian province but which are occupied \/controlled by the &#8220;Republic of China&#8221; (AKA &#8220;Taiwan&#8221;), which is pretty far away. Politics\/history.<br>Control of these islands has been an issue of requisite American political posturing dating back at least as far as the Nixon,\/Kennedy debates and election. (&#8220;I&#8217;ll fight for them harder&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;NO, I will&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/Rando\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1714697759-picsay-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1714697759-picsay-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1714697759-picsay-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1714697759-picsay-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1714697759-picsay.jpg 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the boat ride, I rode a rented bike for a bit to reduce mileage on my shoes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1015\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/Rando\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1714704356-picsay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1714704356-picsay.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1714704356-picsay-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-content\/uploads\/1714704356-picsay-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>hell, and it&#8217;s not even 11 AM here yet! A busy morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"remoji_bar\"><div class=\"remoji_add_container\" data-remoji-id=\"3379\" data-remoji-type=\"post\"><div class=\"remoji_add_icon\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"remoji_error_bar\" data-remoji-id=\"3379\" data-remoji-type=\"post\" style=\"display: none;\">Error happened.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rode on a boat out into the waters between Xiamen and the (quite close&#8230; a short swim) series of small islands that are part of Fujian province but which are occupied \/controlled by the &#8220;Republic of China&#8221; (AKA &#8220;Taiwan&#8221;), which is pretty far away. Politics\/history.Control of these islands has been an issue of requisite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/friday-morning-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday morning fun in Xiamen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/3379","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=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}