{"id":22472,"date":"2017-08-02T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22472"},"modified":"2017-08-02T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:16:13","slug":"2-minutes-of-random-shanghai-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22472","title":{"rendered":"2 minutes of random Shanghai traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shot from the 11th floor of the Westin “Lotus” Hotel.<\/p>\n

It’s being uploaded to YouTube. Will explain after our drive to Duluth this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Best I can do while on my cell phone waiting to have my tires checked in Inver Grove Hts is share the link:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/uCz4HW3tNUg<\/a><\/p>\n

As I explained on Facebook:<\/p>\n

“This is not a dramatic picture of the Great Wall or the Terracotta warriors but a mundane 2 minute video taken from our last day in China from the 11th floor of the Westin “Lotus” Hotel. Gov. Christie is defending President Trump on CNN in the background. <\/p>\n

American street traffic is much more orderly but Chinese Internet and television traffic is even more orderly. No troubling news….unless it’s about the USA.”<\/p>\n

On our first day<\/em> in China, in Beijing, I found a startling sign in the 5 star Kerry Hotel that I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. I took a picture of what I found in the top drawer of the bedside table. It wasn’t a Gideon’s Bible. <\/p>\n

\"Not<\/p>\n

It was a pair of free prophylactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shot from the 11th floor of the Westin “Lotus” Hotel. It’s being uploaded to YouTube. Will explain after our drive to Duluth this afternoon….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22472"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22481,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions\/22481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}