{"id":92,"date":"2004-02-11T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2004-02-11T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T10:15:01","slug":"puttering_in_the_park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/puttering_in_the_park\/","title":{"rendered":"Puttering in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And&#8230;since I was up ANYWAY, I decided to putter about.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Park is on a hill between the Mid-Levels and the ground.  It&#8217;s pretty nice and it&#8217;s compact and right next to the British Embassy.  An oasis from the urbanism that is Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/hkpark.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a walk-in fountain that looks like you&#8217;re under a big umbrella in a very large rainstorm.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/hkfountain.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>There are statues and memorials to various people and causes, as expected.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/hkmemorial.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/hkplaque.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even this testimony to the fact that there are apparently a lot of Americans here too.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/duh.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>You have to be going UP the stairs to see this.  Duh!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/duhcloseup.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And&#8230;since I was up ANYWAY, I decided to putter about. The Hong Kong Park is on a hill between the Mid-Levels and the ground. It&#8217;s pretty nice and it&#8217;s compact and right next to the British Embassy. An oasis from the urbanism that is Hong Kong. There&#8217;s a walk-in fountain that looks like you&#8217;re under &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/puttering_in_the_park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Puttering in the Park&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-02-hkg-and-nrt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-1u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}