{"id":1108,"date":"2011-12-12T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:18:30","slug":"the-first-thing-i-saw-when-i-came-to-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/the-first-thing-i-saw-when-i-came-to-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The first thing I saw when I came to the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1110\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare-872x490.jpg 872w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was quite a while ago (eek! more than 20 years!)&#8230; but I still remember landing in Chicago O&#8217;Hare with my mom, suitcases in tow (transferring to another flight bound for Rochester, NY), and the first thing that caught my eyes were these cool neon lights moving above me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is America!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been traveling to Chicago about once or twice a year (en route to LA or to Germany), and every time I go from terminal B to terminal C I remember walking the walkway with mom&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With just a few weeks left in the year, I decided to start getting my photo galleries up to date. So far I am up to DECEMBER&#8230; of 2008! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah I know. Hey &#8211; at least I got&nbsp;five galleries&nbsp;(September, October, and November, and a few in December 2008) uploaded! Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a while ago (eek! more than 20 years!)&#8230; but I still remember landing in Chicago O&#8217;Hare with my mom, suitcases in tow (transferring to another flight bound for Rochester, NY), and the first thing that caught my eyes were these cool neon lights moving above me. This is America! I have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IL_2011_09_ChicagoOhare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}