{"id":37,"date":"2005-04-23T22:42:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T22:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2005-04-23T22:44:55","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T22:44:55","slug":"wheee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37","title":{"rendered":"Wheee&#8230;..!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, John got his picture of the Queen Mary 2 leaving for Southampton yesterday. She really is big!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/queenmary2b.jpg' alt='Queen Mary 2' \/><br \/>\nAnd Maria got her picture of her new bear. She really is fluffy!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/bear5.jpg' alt='Fluffy bear' \/><br \/>\nToday we had a great afternoon, we went into Chinatown, 50 of the restaurants had set up tasting stations where you could get samples of food for $1 a plate. Some of the plates were quiete substantial.<br \/>\nWe tried sweet and sour pork, ginger chicken, vegetarian dim sum, spring roll, assorted dumplings, steamed buns, some things where we couldn&#8217;t decide if they were sweet or savory, (but they were definatelly crispy), plum tea and of course Peking duck pancakes. I was stuffed!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/chinatown_aa.jpg' alt='Chinatown crowd 1' \/>  <img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/chinatown_ab.jpg' alt='Chinatown crowd 2' \/><br \/>\nIt was very crowded and John had to queue ages for the Peking duck. But it was worth it.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/chinatown_ac.jpg' alt='Peking duck' \/><br \/>\nWe were lucky and saw a dragon\/lion dance.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/chinatown_ad.jpg' alt='Dragon' \/>  <img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/chinatown_ae.jpg' alt='Lion' \/><br \/>\nWe also bought a wok, more slippers for Maria (you wouldn&#8217;t believe she only has one pair of feet), some prawns, some dried mushrooms (well we were told they&#8217;re mushrooms) and at last I got some firecrackers!!! Wheee&#8230;.!!! John says I&#8217;m a menace, I don&#8217;t know why he bought them for me if he didn&#8217;t expect me to use them.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/wilbearypoppers.jpg' alt='Firecracker bombing' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, John got his picture of the Queen Mary 2 leaving for Southampton yesterday. She really is big! And Maria got her picture of her new bear. She really is fluffy! Today we had a great afternoon, we went into Chinatown, 50 of the restaurants had set up tasting stations where you could get samples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}