{"id":410,"date":"2017-03-09T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/?p=410"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:58:21","slug":"just-a-small-town-girl-living-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/2017\/03\/09\/just-a-small-town-girl-living-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Small Town Girl, Living in&#8230; China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/JuliannaBaker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-414\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/JuliannaBaker-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"JuliannaBaker\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/JuliannaBaker-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/JuliannaBaker-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/JuliannaBaker-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/JuliannaBaker.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago I boarded an airplane and flew fourteen hours away from everything I have ever known: my family, my friends, even my language. The moment that we started descending into Beijing and I saw the Great Wall from the sky is the moment that I knew I made the right decision. During our stay in Beijing, we visited the Great Wall at Mutianyu, the Summer Palace, the Olympic Stadiums, Tian&#8217;anmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Lama Temple, and the Confucius Temple. The sights were all breathtaking, but I experienced a change in perspective about halfway through our visit at the Great Wall. \u00a0As I complained how painful it was to climb all of the steps, I paused\u00a0because I realized how much history surrounded me. I realized how much pain the people who built it went through, that I was standing on their bones. Above all, I realized how little I actually knew about this world. My experience had only just begun, and I was already a new person.<\/p>\n<p>We are settled into Dalian now, but I will save the rest of the stories for my next post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Julianna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago I boarded an airplane and flew fourteen hours away from everything I have ever known: my family, my friends, even my language. The moment that we started descending into Beijing and I saw the Great Wall from the sky is the moment that I knew I made the right decision. During our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}