{"id":11,"date":"2009-12-19T03:53:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachseattle.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/19\/a-good-visit"},"modified":"2009-12-19T03:53:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T07:23:35","slug":"a-good-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/a-good-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"A good visit in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

I went for a trip in Taiwan,
\nthe hometown I haven\u2019t visited for the last 15 years. Things are very different
\nand at the same time, very familiar. \u00a0<\/span>I
\nreally like that feeling.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A few highways were built. More people are driving cars. There are more high
\nbuildings and fewer bicycles. Economy is not doing well.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong>People are struggling. Most of them only have one
\nkid because it\u2019s too expensive to raise a kid. Forty years later, the
\npopulation will be reduced to half. It presents a potential society problem.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the town I stayed, daily market is still by the streets. Bargaining
\ngoes on as before.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hot breakfasts can be bought\u00a0 from
\nlittle stands. Scooters are everywhere and still don\u2019t quite agree with the
\ntraffic law. \u00a0<\/span>Most of people live in the
\napartment like condo with bars outside the windows. They are used to the heavy
\ntraffic while walking or driving. And I felt I was risking my life.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I visited my college. School is twice as big as before. A principle had
\nthe vision to purchase a big piece of land behind the school so it got space to
\ngrow. Students looked busy as we were. My friend is a professor now and he has a lot of passion towards teaching in the Dept of Diplomacy. <\/span>I had a reunion with my
\nclassmates. They seemed healthy, content and aged gracefully. Two of them are also professors.
<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My friend took me to Taian<\/span><\/strong> hot spring in the mountain. We paid $8
\ndollars for the whole day visit. Facing the mountain and fall, there were a few
\npools\/cups we moved around and we were the only ones there. It was such a
\npleasure; quiet and relaxing. <\/span><\/strong>
<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"

I went for a trip in Taiwan, the hometown I haven\u2019t visited for the last 15 years. Things are very different and at the same time, very familiar. \u00a0I really like that feeling. A few highways were built. More people are driving cars. There are more high buildings and fewer bicycles. Economy is not doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[292,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}