{"id":1990,"date":"2023-08-27T05:45:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2023-08-27T05:45:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:45:49","slug":"here-we-are-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Here we are in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I was out of my mind for the last 2-3 years. I do know that Jill and I balance each other. Somehow we\u2019ve made it into one of the lives we dreamt of before our life in China abruptly ceased. I have to admit, Jill was the main driver of our fortune. I did keep her centered when she needed it, though. So <em>anyway<\/em> here we are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw in an Instagram post (it feels like I can\u2019t really say I read an Instagram post) that Hong Kong is very close to the most expensive city in the world. I assume that means cost-of-living. It\u2019s hot here and it smells bad sometimes. I\u2019m still excited to live here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning we went to a coffee shop here for the first time. My espresso was not what i usually like but I savored the flavors of each sip, learning to appreciate their characteristics. The last cold mouthful wasn\u2019t bad at all. I hope Hong Kong, at least our little cup of it, can be sipped and appreciated too. It already feels like home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I was out of my mind for the last 2-3 years. I do know that Jill and I balance each other. Somehow we\u2019ve made it into one of the lives we dreamt of before our life in China abruptly ceased. I have to admit, Jill was the main driver of our fortune. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-hong-kong"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a0LE-w6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatriateism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}