{"id":24,"date":"2013-09-01T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-09-01T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T16:05:40","slug":"shanghai-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130901-230657.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130901-230657.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130901-230657.jpg?w=625\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt has occurred to me many times that there are a billion blogs out there about starting over, moving to or living in new countries\/cities\/cultures, and, of course, about photography. And I&#8217;m sure there is at least one about Shanghai, or Photography in a city of 23 or so million people. So here I am. I join the throngs of millions of blogs. I could write about starting over by moving to a new country\/culture to live and taking photographs. But who is going to see, or quite frankly, who is going to care? I don&#8217;t write that as a poor me, rather I take some solace that I can quietly take my time, post something here and there and not many people will notice. It still feels like just my own &#8216;private world&#8217;. But nothing online is private anymore and to think so would be naive. So here is a start of a blog that happens to be updated from Shanghai, and is about Shanghai&#8230;Shanghai Up Close. At least for now my comfort level for posting on this site is &#8216;up close&#8217;. In a country where culture shock didn&#8217;t hit me like a ton of bricks when I arrived, but has slowly started to seep into my conscious being, I both want to get &#8216;up close&#8217; and stay far away. And for now Up Close has taken over. Yes, this photo could have been taken anywhere, but it wasn&#8217;t. I look forward to seeing where this takes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has occurred to me many times that there are a billion blogs out there about starting over, moving to or living in new countries\/cities\/cultures, and, of course, about photography. And I&#8217;m sure there is at least one about Shanghai, or Photography in a city of 23 or so million people. So here I am. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3NZ0V-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbowie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}