{"id":2662,"date":"2016-06-01T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:07:40","slug":"the-things-chinese-people-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/the-things-chinese-people-say","title":{"rendered":"The Things Chinese People Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you arrive in China and meet a few locals it won\u2019t be long before this clip from TMD Shanghai makes all too much sense. It\u2019s a light hearted look at some of things I guarantee you who find yourself hearing when you visit the Middle Kingdom. During my years in China I\u2019ve heard and witnessed a lot. Here are some of my favorite questions I\u2019ve been asked during that time. Where are you from?\u00c0i\u2019\u011brl\u00e1n. Ah,\u00a0Y\u012bnggu\u00f3! Do you know how to use chopsticks? What\u2019s your favorite colour? Do you like Chinese food? How much do they pay you?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen in China the Chinese inquisition will get you and won\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p7tIln7Hz-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you play tai chi? Do you like KTV? Why you not married? Do you like Chinese girl? Whatever you do embrace the inquisitiveness and have fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a fun post inspired by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/monkeykingzchina\">\u00a0TMD Shanghai\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/onlinethatsmag.com\/\">onlinethatsmag.com<\/a>\u00a0by David Kelly CEO and Director of\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/\">www.StudyMartialArts.Org<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 An adventure travel company specialising in Martial Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you arrive in China and meet a few locals it won\u2019t be long before this clip from TMD Shanghai makes all too much sense. It\u2019s a light hearted look at some of things I guarantee you who find yourself hearing when you visit the Middle Kingdom. During my years in China I\u2019ve heard and<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/the-things-chinese-people-say\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,62,87],"tags":[215,48,214,213,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-2662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-china","8":"category-culture","9":"category-travel","10":"tag-chinese-culture","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-language-learning","13":"tag-things-chinese-say","14":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studymartialarts.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}