{"id":388,"date":"2018-01-14T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T00:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/?p=388"},"modified":"2018-01-14T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T00:53:34","slug":"14-1-18-williams-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/14-1-18-williams-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"14-1-18 Williams and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We met several Williams Alums today whose careers, and lives, brought them to Hong Kong. Hearing all of them speak was reassuring to me, as each of them harped on &#8220;Serendipity&#8221; or the randomness of where their life took them. I feel that I get so caught up in this constant worry about what my life is going to become and hearing firsthand from so many alums that it&#8217;s much less worrisome than I think is refreshing. At lunch I talked extensively with one the alums currently working in China &#8211; Andrew Gatewood. We went back and forth about studying Chinese at Williams and he made some pretty convincing arguments. While I was toying with the idea in the past I am seriously considering it now. Eh, who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met several Williams Alums today whose careers, and lives, brought them to Hong Kong. Hearing all of them speak was reassuring to me, as each of them harped on &#8220;Serendipity&#8221; or the randomness of where their life took them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/14-1-18-williams-and-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals_by_asst25"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}