{"id":54,"date":"2003-11-13T06:15:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2003-11-13T06:15:46","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T06:15:46","slug":"sunrise_over_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/sunrise_over_china\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise over China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, I was in LA for my college roommate&#8217;s wedding.  Being the frugal (ha ha) chap I am, I decided to purchase tickets on Southwest, leaving OAK to LAX on Saturday AM and returning Monday AM in time for work.  I saw the sunrise both on the drive to OAK and to LAX.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kinda depressing to be up THAT early to see the sun come up on your way to the airport&#8230;and on the 405 no less!<\/p>\n<p>I saw the sunrise again this AM, this time flying over China on the great circle route to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, I didn&#8217;t feel depressed.  Instead, a feeling of liberation and optimism flowed over me, as if to say &#8220;good things are possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s freedom that I felt because I was traveling and unshackled from the chains that bind me to work and my desk.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, I didn&#8217;t mind that I watched the sunrise today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, I was in LA for my college roommate&#8217;s wedding. Being the frugal (ha ha) chap I am, I decided to purchase tickets on Southwest, leaving OAK to LAX on Saturday AM and returning Monday AM in time for work. I saw the sunrise both on the drive to OAK and to LAX. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/sunrise_over_china\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunrise over China&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2003-11-sin-nrt-and-icn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}