{"id":81,"date":"2018-01-07T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/?p=81"},"modified":"2018-01-07T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:38:15","slug":"beautiful-absurd-and-accidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/beautiful-absurd-and-accidental\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful, Absurd, and Accidental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can you find at ten a.m in Google Maps while searching for nearby hikes? Directions to a temple. What can you find while walking through a temple? Fruit, incense, shockingly agile cats, a lizard, unexplained ash, and a song to hum incessantly throughout the day. What can you find as you leave the temple? A green spot on Google Maps. What can you find when you walk towards that green spot? Government sanctioned &#8220;squatter structures,&#8221; a quarry, a series of damns, a giant green reservoir where a swimming man is checking traps, a path that always seems to end just around the corner, and an unfathomable number of stairs. What will you find if you follow the stairs? Children&#8217;s artwork, potted plants, shaded spots where you can sit by the stream, water pipes, transmission towers, discarded clothing, gardens, clay, ever-changing ecosystems, trees that have given up their bark, trees whose limbs twist through the path and make you step to the side, wind, humidity, a helicopter pad, many unofficial trails, and finally, one of the best views of my entire life. We accidentally hiked a mountain today and it was spectacular, absurd, wonderful, incomparable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you find at ten a.m in Google Maps while searching for nearby hikes? Directions to a temple. What can you find while walking through a temple? Fruit, incense, shockingly agile cats, a lizard, unexplained ash, and a song &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/journals_by_asst25\/beautiful-absurd-and-accidental\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1835,"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-81","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\/81","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\/1835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/asst25-hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}