{"id":208,"date":"2004-11-12T22:26:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T22:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2004-11-12T22:26:46","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T22:26:46","slug":"the_border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/the_border\/","title":{"rendered":"The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you cross back into HKG from SZ, you walk over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/border2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/border2.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">river<\/a> that is the official border.  That&#8217;s Shenzhen in the distance with the tall buildings and the like.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a tepid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/border1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/border1.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">stinky icky river<\/a> that if you were to try to swim it, you would lose body parts on the way.<br \/>\nReally gross.  Makes Victoria Harbour seem like a clean swimming pool by comparision.<br \/>\nBut with everything out here, this too reeks (bad pun!) of politics.  When you cross over to SZ, you don&#8217;t see the river because the hallway that leads over is covered up.<br \/>\nComing back, it&#8217;s an open bridge so you get the full smell and sights of that icky river.<br \/>\nPhew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you cross back into HKG from SZ, you walk over a river that is the official border. That&#8217;s Shenzhen in the distance with the tall buildings and the like. It&#8217;s a tepid stinky icky river that if you were to try to swim it, you would lose body parts on the way. Really gross. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/the_border\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Border&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-11-hkg-nrt-and-pek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-3m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}