{"id":774,"date":"2008-11-19T23:14:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2008-11-19T23:14:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T23:14:40","slug":"view_from_the_wing_hkia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/view_from_the_wing_hkia\/","title":{"rendered":"View from The Wing, HKIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am killing time at the CX lounge, &#8220;The Wing&#8221; as I wait for my flight to PVG.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thewing1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/thewing1.jpg?resize=480%2C360\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<em>The Wing is directly above all the CX gates<\/em><br \/>\nYou will notice the lack of blue sky above.  I&#8217;ve been a frequent visitor to the Big Lychee for close to ten years now.  The pollution from Guangzhou has gotten progressively worse, especially over the past couple of years, to the point when within 24 hours after I&#8217;m here, I get the funny itch in my throat and burning eyes that is attributed to smog.  Or what the PRC locals call it, &#8220;fog&#8221;.  I&#8217;m from SFO and I know fog.  What you&#8217;ve got here in HKG ain&#8217;t it!<br \/>\nYeah, I&#8217;m sensitive to pollutants.  And I&#8217;m going to Shanghai.  Smart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am killing time at the CX lounge, &#8220;The Wing&#8221; as I wait for my flight to PVG. The Wing is directly above all the CX gates You will notice the lack of blue sky above. I&#8217;ve been a frequent visitor to the Big Lychee for close to ten years now. The pollution from Guangzhou has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/view_from_the_wing_hkia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;View from The Wing, HKIA&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-hk-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-cu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}