{"id":157,"date":"2008-11-21T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providentiallife.wordpress.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-11-21T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T21:33:34","slug":"dear-chinawith-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/dear-chinawith-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear China&#8230;with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/providentiallife.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/china_missing_you.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169\" title=\"china_missing_you\" src=\"http:\/\/providentiallife.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/china_missing_you.jpg\" alt=\"china_missing_you\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/china_missing_you.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/china_missing_you-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear China,<\/p>\n<p>I am writing because I wanted to say that I missed you. I know your life has gone on without me, and that you hardly even noticed that I had left. But I remember all the good times we had together, and I wanted to say that I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t say a proper goodbye. I regret my leaving, and even though you will hardly remember my coming during your 5,000+ year history. Someday, I hope, you&#8217;ll remember all those days we spent together in the shade of smog-clouds. All the times you let me explore your historical monuments such as the Great Wall or the Temple of Heaven. I miss you terribly, and I think of it often.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Your loving, favorite American<\/p>\n<p>And now, commemorative photos from the great People&#8217;s Republic of China. Please click on each below to enjoy them all!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-157 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/dear-chinawith-love\/funny_sign_1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/funny_sign_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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src=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/funny_sign_6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/dear-chinawith-love\/funny_sign_7\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/funny_sign_7-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/dear-chinawith-love\/funny_sign_8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/funny_sign_8-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" 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I know your life has gone on without me, and that you hardly even noticed that I had left. But I remember all the good times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/dear-chinawith-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[186,241,1433],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-letter","tag-china","tag-dear-john","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}