{"id":152,"date":"2007-11-03T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T00:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/jingliu\/2007\/11\/reading-chinese-books\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:47:26","slug":"reading-chinese-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/2007\/11\/03\/reading-chinese-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Chinese Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finish reading several Chinese books this rainy weekend, including two on health and parenting borrowed from friends. They made me feel relaxed and inspired. Megan just came over and told me how beautiful Mandarin is. That&#8217;s quite unusual! and I have to make a note here.<\/p>\n<p>We are lucky living in Vancouver with best Chinese collections at UBC, public libraries and bookstores, plus many friends who love to read. When I am tired of reading in English, Chinese books bring me joy and a different way of thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finish reading several Chinese books this rainy weekend, including two on health and parenting borrowed from friends. They made me feel relaxed and inspired. Megan just came over and told me how beautiful Mandarin is. That&#8217;s quite unusual! and I have to make a note here. We are lucky living in Vancouver with best Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}