{"id":6720,"date":"2000-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/6720-day-3-of-the-china-trip-with-the-travelers"},"modified":"2000-08-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-08-16T07:00:00","slug":"day-3-of-the-china-trip-with-the-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/6720-day-3-of-the-china-trip-with-the-travelers","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 of the China Trip with the Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/385pic99.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em\" alt=\"Article image\">This is the second in a series of articles and images from NDH correspondent, David Sand, on the road in China with John-Roger, John Morton and 108 traveling peacemakers.<\/p>\n<p>Join mildly crazed bus driver David Sand for a journey through the August 16 China trip:<\/p>\n<p>On the bus and off the bus today. Left at 7:30 am for the Great Wall, through a beautiful area of Beijing (sleek, modern, could almost have been any contemporary Asian city or even parts of LA &#8211;even a new IKEA, and a new Disney-esque amusement park. <\/p>\n<p>Then through the suburbs and countryside and off the bus for potty break. <\/p>\n<p>Then onto cable cars up to the Great Wall of China.<\/p>\n<p>We joined thousands of Chinese tourists climbing around this mind-boggling structure of the Great Wall. Gorgeous mountainous countryside. <\/p>\n<p>John-Roger and John Morton are now on the tour and running around with the rest of us.<br \/>\nJ-R&#8217;s brother Delile and his wife Elda are on the trip too, and Delile&#8217;s resemblance to J-R in appearance, body build, and even voice are uncanny.<\/p>\n<p>Back on &amp; off the bus for lunch at a nearby restaurant, and back on the bus bound for the imperial &#8220;Summer Palace&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know how those emperors dealt with the heat, though&#8211;it must be 95 or 100 degrees and 90% humidity. We wander around the gardens, paths, grottoes, led by our own Steve Beimel, expert on oriental culture, along with oriental scholar Bill Ratliffe.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the day would not be complete without Judi Goldfader kissing a fish-head at dinner, and a really inspired dinner concert with some top Chinese musicians.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re exhausted, drenched in sweat, ready for shower and bed&#8211;but of course having a great time. Some staff members have been cackling, hinting at what&#8217;s in store for us tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"template.php3?ID=107\">Click here to view Children of China Special Feature<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"template.php3?ID=98\">Click here to view Days 1 &amp; 2 of the China Trip<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the bus and off the bus today. Left at 7:30 am for the Great Wall, through a beautiful area of Beijing (sleek, modern, could almost have been any contemporary Asian city or even parts of LA &#8211;even a new IKEA, and a new Disney-esque amusement park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":86594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[28,27,29,30,31],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndh-archives","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-chinese-musicians","tag-great-wall","tag-summer-palace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}