{"id":2258,"date":"2026-01-26T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:51:27","slug":"dreams-of-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/dreams-of-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2259\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dreams_of_beijing-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dreams_of_beijing-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dreams_of_beijing-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dreams_of_beijing-1152x1536.webp 1152w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dreams_of_beijing.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mercedes with mirror paint in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2261\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/beijing.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/beijing.webp 713w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/beijing-300x151.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A sandstorm in Beijing. Someone thought it would be funny to embed a few aliens into this real photo. To understand this picture: during the wild times, aliens landing in insanely polluted Beijing, surrounded by all the crazy people, would have felt like nothing extraordinary\u2014almost expected. That\u2019s what makes this picture funny. No one can truly grasp the wildness and craziness of this place unless they lived there back then\u2014times that probably won\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2260\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2019.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2019.webp 680w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2019-300x241.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go abroad. You will be happier.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare for the future, book a consultation now. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/contact-us\/\">Talk to us.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes with mirror paint in Beijing. A sandstorm in Beijing. Someone thought it would be funny to embed a few aliens into this real photo. To understand this picture: during the wild times, aliens landing in insanely polluted Beijing, surrounded by all the crazy people, would have felt like nothing extraordinary\u2014almost expected. That\u2019s what makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup-plan","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}