{"id":1649,"date":"2010-02-10T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:16","slug":"china-gets-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/02\/china-gets-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"China gets modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice photo<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/2f4d8444-0a1b-11df-8b23-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=a712eb94-dc2b-11da-890d-0000779e2340.html\"> essay <\/a>from Financial Times on railways in Inner Mongolia.\u00a0 Lots of nice pics, but the thing that amazed me was that the author was traveling with a\u00a0 &#8220;coachload of well-dressed Chinese steam enthusiasts.&#8221; Needless to say they were there to ride one of China&#8217;s last working steam locomotives.\u00a0 For those of you who don&#8217;t know, train nuts are at least as fanatic as comic book collectors or stamp people or whatever. As far as I am aware China does not yet have a <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZDM-mkhdQEQC&amp;pg=PA9&amp;lpg=PA9&amp;dq=myles+na+gcopaleen+steam+men&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=TjT641tIW4&amp;sig=ruXTrP3ObC85l3Fpg2FTEy0xU0s&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=v2xzS4OHCY6INLvu5fUJ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=8&amp;ved=0CCYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&amp;q=myles%20na%20gcopaleen%20steam%20men&amp;f=false\">Myles na gCopaleen<\/a>,\u00a0 but apparently they do have plenty of people who are nostalgic for the vanishing industrial past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice photo essay from Financial Times on railways in Inner Mongolia.\u00a0 Lots of nice pics, but the thing that amazed me was that the author was traveling with a\u00a0 &#8220;coachload of well-dressed Chinese steam enthusiasts.&#8221; Needless to say they were there to ride one of China&#8217;s last working steam locomotives.\u00a0 For those of you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-mongols-and-mongolia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-qB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}