{"id":2491,"date":"2011-07-05T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/xiamen\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:27:04","slug":"xiamen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/xiamen\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiamen"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took a hotel car out north of Xiamen today to the next district to visit a potential manufacturer.\u00a0 On the way to and fro we passed miles and miles of subsistence living, without amenities, comfort, or even glassed in windows to keep out the winter cold.\u00a0 Farm plots in this area are small and intensely cultivated with many hand tied bamboo support structures.\u00a0 The land appears rich and the people incredibly industrious, and everyone seems happy despite an absence of opulence and wealth.\u00a0 I didn’t shoot any pictures of the poor blocks and dwellings today.\u00a0 With so many working so hard to scratch out a living with only labor and very little capital, it didn’t seem fair to expose them to too much scrutiny.\u00a0 Maybe some day in the future.<\/p>\n

The pics below are in the city, quite a different scene there.<\/p>\n

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On the waterway between Gulang Yu and the city of Xiamen you can see lots of tour boats.\u00a0 Naturally you would expect some of them might offer dinner cruises since many look about the right size for that sort of thing.\u00a0 So we asked the concierge at the hotel if he could recommend a dinner cruise.\u00a0 This became a discussion among 4 or 5 concierge staff and us trying to explain what a dinner cruise was to them.\u00a0 The up shot of it was that if we wanted dinner on a boat, they recommended we should “take dinner” with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took a hotel car out north of Xiamen today to the next district to visit a potential manufacturer.\u00a0 On the way to and fro we passed miles and miles of subsistence living, without amenities, comfort, or even glassed in windows to keep out the winter cold.\u00a0 Farm plots in this area are small and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-asia","7":"category-travel","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}