{"id":3597,"date":"2020-08-23T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/learning\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2020-08-23T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T06:24:00","slug":"a-change-in-this-blogs-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/2020\/08\/23\/a-change-in-this-blogs-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"A change in this blog&#8217;s writing."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>[show_post_categories show=&#8221;category&#8221; hyperlink=&#8221;yes&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>[show_post_categories show=&#8221;tag&#8221; hyperlink=&#8221;yes&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They say &#8220;change is the norm&#8221; and it is true. Apart from death and taxes, nothing in life is certain. It is more so during this pandemic era.<br \/>This blog&#8217;s main author, Dr. Chow has taken up an appointment as a full time teaching staff at a government university in Guangdong Province, China since late February 2019. Hence the prolonged absence of new articles.\u00a0 Dr. Chow plans to write about his life as an academic of a public Chinese institution of higher learning, his observations of life in his new home, Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, teaching and learning and other musings.<br \/>As his academic duties take precedence, Dr. Chow&#8217;s contributions to this blog will inevitably be more sporadic than before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The famous \u4ed9\u5973\u6e56 &#8211; fairy&#8217;s lake at Zhaoqing City<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20191108_180120-scaled.jpg\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3743\" src=\"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20191108_180120-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fairy's lake - \u4ed9\u5973\u6e56\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Among the topics that Dr. Chow is preparing to write are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It&#8217;s normal living without physical cash in China!<\/li><li>The new norm in teaching &#8211;  online delivery<\/li><li>etc.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-image-compare\"><div class=\"juxtapose\" data-mode=\"horizontal\"><img class=\"image-compare__image-before\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"3745\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/slc4u.org\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20191207_070142-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\u5317\u5cad\u5c71\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"image-compare__image-after\"\/><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary [show_post_categories show=&#8221;category&#8221; hyperlink=&#8221;yes&#8221;] [show_post_categories show=&#8221;tag&#8221; hyperlink=&#8221;yes&#8221;] \u00a0 They say &#8220;change is the norm&#8221; and it is true. Apart from death and taxes, nothing in life is certain. It is more so during this pandemic era.This blog&#8217;s main author, Dr. Chow has taken up an appointment as a full time teaching staff at a government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/2020\/08\/23\/a-change-in-this-blogs-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A change in this blog&#8217;s writing.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc4u.org\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}