{"id":2568,"date":"2015-01-12T08:33:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2015-01-31T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T04:22:40","slug":"make-up-day-1415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"Make-up Day, 1\/4\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is an official make-up day for the Thursday holiday. It\u2019s not just for Chinese schools, but for any business, bank, etc. that might have celebrated Jan. 1. I get to school with time to spare, and set-up the room, ready for kids. Everyone is here today. It\u2019s been a long time since everyone has been in class. Neither of the clubs are meeting today, so I hang around for lunch, and then head home. The jet lag hits me around 2:00. Ugh!<\/p>\n<p>Judy\u2019s home preparing for a big week back at BISS. With grades to finish posting, and musical planning to do she has a full day of work.<\/p>\n<p>The weather in Beijing has been steady. It\u2019s below freezing at night and slightly above freezing during the day. It\u2019ll be like this for the next week, without much change. Unlike the weather in North Texas, it stays pretty steady. The pollution is a different matter. It\u2019s really high for a few hours, and then drops to low double-digits for a while, and then starts the cycle again. Weird?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is an official make-up day for the Thursday holiday. It\u2019s not just for Chinese schools, but for any business, bank, etc. that might have celebrated Jan. 1. I get to school with time to spare, and set-up the room, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}