{"id":591,"date":"2018-01-21T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/?p=591"},"modified":"2018-01-21T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:19:09","slug":"17-idlenessfamiliarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/17-idlenessfamiliarity\/","title":{"rendered":"17: idleness\/familiarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The growth of my camera roll has gradually slowed down by now, and I stop gawking at every neon sign and street cart. Instead of new stimulations, I now search for familiarity: the way tree roots refuse to stay underground and instead stubbornly wrap around stone walls, when the overwhelming scent of incense almost swallows you the moment you step into a temple, how <span class=\"s1\">\u6787\u6777\u818f<\/span> delivers a sweet numbness as it slips down your throat. This is not homesickness\u2014I can easily stay a month here\u2014but probably some form of adaptation, defense mechanism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But today, I feel a different kind of sick: the mundane, common flu. A visit to the doctor without insurance is definitely cheaper here, but I opted out with the intentions of spending my money on more tangible objects that may help me remember. Counting the days we have left is quite depressing, so I work on my paper instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of my camera roll has gradually slowed down by now, and I stop gawking at every neon sign and street cart. Instead of new stimulations, I now search for familiarity: the way tree roots refuse to stay underground &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/17-idlenessfamiliarity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1841,"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-591","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\/591","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\/1841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}