{"id":239,"date":"2009-02-05T23:14:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-02-05T23:14:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:14:59","slug":"cheung-chau-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"back-blogging: Cheung Chau island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Cheung Chau island more or less a year ago,  right after the Chinese new year of 2008. It was cold and the red lanterns were still out.   Since I moved to Hong Kong in 2005, I have hiked around on many of its beaches, hills and islands. I enjoy the process of slowly changing into a different person, getting high on the senses.  It becomes a kind of floating that complements the neurotic-obsessive energy of Hong Kong, and my own, or can push it in the right direction. And yes, Hong Kong&#8217;s islands are very charming and yet unassuming.  The food on Cheung Chau island is amazing and can be divided in <a href=\"http:\/\/hk.youtube.com\/watch?v=UTKf8stsiiw \">old style Chinese<\/a> and <a href=\" http:\/\/hk.youtube.com\/watch?v=LzggbLVjFy0\">new Asian fusion<\/a>, as my students documented in their video projects. There is even an old lady selling single pieces of sushi. I recommend a day of whirling around on Cheung Chau&#8217;s hills and beaches, a food fest in the outdoors, and a stay in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warwickhotel.com.hk\" target=\"_blank\">Warwick hotel: <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheung Chau island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Cheung Chau island more or less a year ago, right after the Chinese new year of 2008. It was cold and the red lanterns were still out. Since I moved to Hong Kong in 2005, I have hiked around on many of its beaches, hills and islands. I enjoy the process of slowly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=239\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">back-blogging: Cheung Chau island<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong-outlying-islands","tag-hong-kong","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}