{"id":8264,"date":"2004-05-17T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:54:34","slug":"8264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2004\/05\/17\/8264\/","title":{"rendered":"Caves and submerging cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/449290967_10100893562351097_2838944323456665708_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8269\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/449290967_10100893562351097_2838944323456665708_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a> Went to a wondrous Buddhist cave\/statuary about two hours from here, our only real chance the students will have to see how the other 75% live.\u00a0 Not like the cities, nor like agriculture in the countryside in the US.\u00a0 They use every bit of land, and terrace it at that.\u00a0 And there are people in the fields.\u00a0 No machinery.\u00a0 Not like Iowa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/fengdu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8270 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/fengdu-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/fengdu-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/fengdu.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m here today because in 10 years the valley will be underwater.\u00a0 Though they&#8217;re building new projects here to resettle the 1.1 million displaced people in the 23 b project, I like the older buildings<br \/>\nwhich will be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to a wondrous Buddhist cave\/statuary about two hours from here, our only real chance the students will have to see how the other 75% live.\u00a0 Not like the cities, nor like agriculture in the countryside in the US.\u00a0 They use every bit of land, and terrace it at that.\u00a0 And there are people in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2004\/05\/17\/8264\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caves and submerging cities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-2004-china-yangtze-burma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9267,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}