{"id":453,"date":"2018-01-16T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/?p=453"},"modified":"2018-01-16T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:12:39","slug":"january-16th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/january-16th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"January 16th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s class surrounded a topic near and dear to my heart&#8211;food! I felt especially close to this topic because I think food is a good indicator of many different cultures, especially since I was raised with corn tortillas and my hands, instead of a fork and knife. I also really enjoyed the discussion we had in class about last night&#8217;s reading. I found it a very applicable piece of literature that explained the merging of multiple different cultures along with depicting the various attitudes that could come as a result from it.<\/p>\n<p>After class, we visited a wet market in Tuen Mun, and I was happy to see it bustling with people. Things seemed fresher in these markets, and the vendors were especially nice. When Konnor and I were attempting to find tea leaves, for example, one vendor mentioned to us a place in the mall where we could find plenty more. I found that particularly nice, because it was apparent that they were invested in helping us out. Konnor and I, with the help of Ann, managed to get a good deal of tea leaves to bring back home&#8211;more than enough to sustain us for a year probably! The seller even threw in a really cute display tea set that I absolutely fell in love with.<\/p>\n<p>After that, we returned home and I managed to take a short rest, walk around the area on my own, replenish my chocolate milk box supply, and just enjoy the weather while doing some reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s class surrounded a topic near and dear to my heart&#8211;food! I felt especially close to this topic because I think food is a good indicator of many different cultures, especially since I was raised with corn tortillas and my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/january-16th-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"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-453","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\/453","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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}