{"id":717,"date":"2018-04-05T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bltierney.wordpress.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2018-04-13T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:47:56","slug":"shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final post of our trip. We left home almost 7.5 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai was super interesting. Way nicer, cleaner, and more modern than I was expecting.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some random stats on Shanghai that I found interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are 26 million people, which is the 2nd largest city in the world<\/li>\n<li>There are 450,000 share bikes that rent for about .20\/hr.<\/li>\n<li>There are 160 Starbucks, with a new store opening somewhere in China every 15 hours.<\/li>\n<li>The 1\/3 mile tall <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghai_Tower\">Shanghai tower<\/a> has the worlds highest observation deck (which we didn&#8217;t have time to visit) and the worlds fastest elevator.<\/li>\n<li>About 95% of all motorbikes in Shanghai are now electric<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a bit surprising just how little English is spoken in Shanghai. Even the bartender at the Fairmont Hotel did not speak English, tho he did know how to make a very nice cocktail.<\/p>\n<p>Some photos are <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/2Nol8c5VCiUE4Z392\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-724 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bltierney.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/img_20180331_174328.jpg\" width=\"2740\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final post of our trip. We left home almost 7.5 months ago. Shanghai was super interesting. Way nicer, cleaner, and more modern than I was expecting. Here are some random stats on Shanghai that I found interesting: There are 26 million people, which is the 2nd largest city in the world ThereContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-asia","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}