{"id":501,"date":"2018-01-17T19:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/?p=501"},"modified":"2018-01-17T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:44:45","slug":"17-1-18-the-peak-and-happy-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/17-1-18-the-peak-and-happy-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"17-1-18 The &#8220;Peak&#8221; and Happy Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a day.<\/p>\n<p>Today was wild from the point that I decided to hike up Victoria Peak with RB, Haley and Professor. Yu. At first I wasn\u2019t sure if I wanted to go or just spend some time relaxing before heading to the happy valley race course. It turns out I won\u2019t be Hong Kong forever so I decided to go on the hike, regardless if my body wanted to or not. The first part of the hike was disgustingly steep and I thought that we had our work cut out for us, but the incline slowly died down and we eventually meandered our way to the \u201ctop.\u201d I put top in quotations because we never actually reached the top, because you had to pay to go to the observation deck &#8211; how about no. Either way we were able to take some nice pictures and get a nice vantage point on the smog covered city below. Afterwards we rushed into the tram and to Happy Valley Race Course. Despite the odds me and RB won a whole dollar on our first bet (but lost fifteen on our second.) now we are on our way home penniless and broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a day. Today was wild from the point that I decided to hike up Victoria Peak with RB, Haley and Professor. Yu. At first I wasn\u2019t sure if I wanted to go or just spend some time relaxing before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/17-1-18-the-peak-and-happy-valley\/\">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-501","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\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}