{"id":7506,"date":"2011-09-05T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2011-09-05T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T06:22:29","slug":"busy-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/busy-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7505\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-design.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-design.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"861\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-design.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-design-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-design-768x853.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-design-624x693.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunday Afternoon in Fuxing Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>China is a busy country, even when relaxing. Shanghai&#8217;s public open spaces are particularly well used in the glorious late summer weather, and the emphasis is on doing something, even if it&#8217;s only watching what other people are doing. The only restriction that I have seen is on accepting money for singing or playing an instrument, so people do these things anyway, for free, and often to an extremely high standard. This is Fuxing Park, laid out by the French in 1909, 10 ha big. I particularly like it, because the activities that people choose are so much more charming than the parks at home, where jogging, football and grilling are the diversions of choice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is a busy country, even when relaxing. Shanghai&#8217;s public open spaces are particularly well used in the glorious late summer weather, and the emphasis is on doing something, even if it&#8217;s only watching what other people are doing. The only restriction that I have seen is on accepting money for singing or playing an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}