{"id":593,"date":"2007-01-07T18:15:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T18:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2007-01-07T18:15:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T18:15:30","slug":"housecleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/housecleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Housecleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese New Year is late this year, so I&#8217;ve got time to clean.  As part of my &#8220;clean the closet out&#8221; project, I&#8217;ve been going through my old travel box, tossing out a lot of old receipts and outdated brochures.<br \/>\nMaps and stuff from my first visit to Chicago&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldmaps.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldmaps.html','popup','width=640,height=425,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldmaps-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C212\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>That was in 1998, shortly before my first overseas jaunt<\/em><br \/>\nPlaces i&#8217;ve visited and things i&#8217;ve seen&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldpostcards.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldpostcards.html','popup','width=640,height=425,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldpostcards-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C212\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>There&#8217;s a lot of stuff from my first visit to the PRC here&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nYou sure collect a lot of stuff when you travel&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldstuff.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldstuff.html','popup','width=640,height=425,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oldstuff-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C212\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Believe it or not, a lot of this stuff went buh-bye<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;because I think that if you plan to return to a place to get to know it better, you don&#8217;t have to keep a lot of the stuff you wind up with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese New Year is late this year, so I&#8217;ve got time to clean. As part of my &#8220;clean the closet out&#8221; project, I&#8217;ve been going through my old travel box, tossing out a lot of old receipts and outdated brochures. Maps and stuff from my first visit to Chicago&#8230; That was in 1998, shortly before &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/housecleaning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Housecleaning&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-9z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}