{"id":1755,"date":"2012-08-17T20:39:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:05:49","slug":"simple-pleasure-6-tram-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"Simple Pleasure 6: Tram Rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120820-080231.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120820-080231.jpg\" alt=\"20120820-080231.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I am not in a rush I always like taking the trams on Hong Kong island. As I type this blog entry on my iPhone, I&#8217;m taking a slow ride to Wanchai and enjoying the night scene. Sure the trams are slow compared to the trains and buses, but I love this old-school mode of transport. I also like how it&#8217;s affectionately known as &#8216;ding ding&#8217; (\u53ee\u53ee) by the locals because the bell is to the tram as a horn is to a car. Cute. Did I also mention it&#8217;s one of the cheapest forms of public transport at HKD 2.3 per ride?<\/p>\n<p>I usually like to sit on the upper deck as I get to see more. And as the trams are not air conditioned, I feel not as cut off from what&#8217;s going on in the street compared to being stuck underground in a train or behind a glass window in a bus. Having the night breeze blow gently in my face is so nice after being stuck in the office for the whole day. Ok, I shall just forget about the fact that the air outside is polluted and filled with exhaust fumes from the other vehicles on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Now excuse me while I enjoy my slow tram ride and continue my people-watching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I am not in a rush I always like taking the trams on Hong Kong island. As I type this blog entry on my iPhone, I&#8217;m taking a slow ride to Wanchai and enjoying the night scene. Sure the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","category-simple-pleasures","tag-tram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}