{"id":339,"date":"2012-02-15T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/to-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T16:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:18:05","slug":"to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/to-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"To Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a picture I took out the window of the plane on our way to Taiwan. It is Alaska, near where the Kenai Peninsula joins the mainland.<\/p>\n

\"Alaska\"<\/p>\n

It may seem surprising that we flew over Alaska going from San Francisco to Tokyo, but if you stretch a string between those cities on a globe, you see that it really is the shortest route. Looking at flat maps skews our perception of the round world.<\/p>\n

And here’s a picture in the TV studio where Devon was recording his daily program, “Read the news, Learn English” (it sounds better in Chinese!). They let Gisele and I attend the taping one morning. You can see the teleprompter just to the right of the monitor, though you can’t see the text from this angle. The Chinese prompts are all in Chinese characters, which is forcing Devon to quickly learn to read!<\/p>\n

\"Devon<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the completed show<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a picture I took out the window of the plane on our way to Taiwan. It is Alaska, near where the Kenai Peninsula joins the mainland. It may seem surprising that we flew over Alaska going from San Francisco to Tokyo, but if you stretch a string between those cities on a globe, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}