{"id":583,"date":"2017-08-28T23:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/?p=503"},"modified":"2017-08-28T23:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:45:29","slug":"stretching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/2017\/08\/28\/stretching\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really consider myself to be an athletic person, but I know what it feels like to stretch before or after a workout. At first your muscles are kind of tight, it&#8217;s difficult, and kind of uncomfortable. Being in a new country and experiencing a new culture is like stretching from the inside out. Even though it doesn&#8217;t seem natural at first the more you push yourself the more it benefits you.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the occasional embarrassing and confusing moments (like when you try to ask a waitress what you thought was a simple question and before you know it there are five people that don&#8217;t speak English standing around you trying to figure out what you&#8217;re asking and how to respond) being in China has been amazing so far! It&#8217;s going to mean having a whole new perspective on life by the time this semester is over. After all, four months is a long time to stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really consider myself to be an athletic person, but I know what it feels like to stretch before or after a workout. At first your muscles are kind of tight, it&#8217;s difficult, and kind of uncomfortable. Being in a new country and experiencing a new culture is like stretching from the inside out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"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-583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}