{"id":166,"date":"2008-06-09T12:54:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T01:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/minority-cafe\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T01:56:46","slug":"minority-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/minority-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More rain this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 I head to the Minority Cafe, and hop on the internet.\u00c2\u00a0 Get some coffee, and eventually some breakfast, and upload some photos.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s much quieter today then the weekend, despite today being a holiday in China. I assume most people are heading home.\u00c2\u00a0 That, or they&#8217;re afraid of the rain, or still sleeping.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably those last two.<\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3181\/2565747065_23ac52a9ac.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_8432\" \/>\n<p>Walking back to the guesthouse, I run into the girl who sold me the sunglasses, and chat with her for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 Her western name is Christine, although it&#8217;s also Rosa.\u00c2\u00a0 She tells me her Chinese name, but I forget it.\u00c2\u00a0 She gets some customers, so I bid her adieu, and regroup at the hostel.\u00c2\u00a0 Hop on the internet there, and the mother of the owner tries to get me to pay (internet is only free between 19:00 and 24:00, but never seems to be working at this time), but I refuse.\u00c2\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t speak english, so I just feign ignorance until she goes away.<\/p>\n<p>Back in town, I have some lunch, and do some reading, then get back to the hostel, and Natasha invites me to dinner with our new roommate, George (who I actually met in The Minority Cafe earlier), and two others &#8211; Danielle and Tom.\u00c2\u00a0 We all order a dish, and share.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re a bit small, so when we get to the next bar, I order some fries to fill me up.\u00c2\u00a0 Not as good as the ones I had at Tiger Leaping Gorge, but they&#8217;ll do.<\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2367\/2565752371_bbe0c6ee58.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_8434\" \/>\n<p>We head back to the hostel, and I read a tiny bit, but I&#8217;m nodding off, so I just get some sleep instead.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard work doing nothing all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More rain this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 I head to the Minority Cafe, and hop on the internet.\u00c2\u00a0 Get some coffee, and eventually some breakfast, and upload some photos.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s much quieter today then the weekend, despite today being a holiday in China. I assume most people are heading home.\u00c2\u00a0 That, or they&#8217;re afraid of the rain, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}