{"id":114,"date":"2015-07-13T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angelafremont.com\/dir\/?p=114"},"modified":"2015-07-13T21:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:58:55","slug":"farms-to-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/2015\/07\/13\/farms-to-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"Farms to apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The north is arid grasslands and desert. In fact, Harold sends me a link to the <u>Times <\/u>today that describes the forced evacuation of the nomadic tribes of the North.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/12\/world\/asia\/china-fences-in-its-nomads-and-an-ancient-life-withers.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&#038;smid=nytcore-iphone-share<\/p>\n<p>Trading their culture of sheparding animals and living in tents for the apartments, electricity and jobs that are creating these enormous urban centers. \u00a0There are also lots of enormous apartment buildings going up in Xi\u2019an for the workers that will leave the more rural areas to live and work closer to jobs that will bring income to send back home. \u00a0The apartment buildings are huge blocks, reminds me a bit of Co-op City. \u00a0Can you see the cranes busy at the top?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5323.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-111\" src=\"http:\/\/angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5323-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5323\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5323-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5323-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is very hot in Beijing, but even hotter in Xi\u2019an, home of the Terracotta Warriors. Tomorrow we head directly for the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The north is arid grasslands and desert. In fact, Harold sends me a link to the Times today that describes the forced evacuation of the nomadic tribes of the North. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/12\/world\/asia\/china-fences-in-its-nomads-and-an-ancient-life-withers.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&#038;smid=nytcore-iphone-share Trading their culture of sheparding animals and living in tents for the apartments, electricity and jobs that are creating these enormous urban centers. \u00a0There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/2015\/07\/13\/farms-to-apartments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farms to apartments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}