{"id":10,"date":"2005-12-01T21:43:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quadhome.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2005-12-01T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T13:43:42","slug":"the-meaning-of-the-word-formosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of the Word Formosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flash of insight: What does &#8220;Formosa&#8221; really mean?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stairs&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This became clear out on the coast north of Keelung. Any place there is a hill, there are stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Starting to feel a bit of wanderlust. It&#8217;s fun here, but no question I&#8217;m not putting the kind of work in I should be on Chinese. Yes, some odd words are seeping in to the mind. But, it&#8217;s vaguely possible to blunder around without knowing anything useful. Heck, numbers can always be handled with writing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;re looking in to renting a car to have a look at the northest coast of the island. Might not be what happens, though. Car rental doesn&#8217;t seem to have a lot of backers of people I&#8217;ve talked with. Eveyone talks of crazy Taiwan drivers. They don&#8217;t seem so crazy to me. But, car rental is a long way from LA prices. And &#8211; killer &#8211; there may be a milage limit. A low milage limit. Anyway, it may be that buses, etc, are, in fact, a better way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but for the first time, I&#8217;m aware of when this trip ends. Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash of insight: What does &#8220;Formosa&#8221; really mean? &#8220;Stairs&#8221; This became clear out on the coast north of Keelung. Any place there is a hill, there are stairs. Starting to feel a bit of wanderlust. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}