{"id":1053,"date":"2015-06-27T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2015-07-16T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T08:31:22","slug":"hong-kong-cruel-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Cruel Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alanala.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1054 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19095834271_b80a350dcb_c.jpg\" alt=\"19095834271_b80a350dcb_c\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19095834271_b80a350dcb_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19095834271_b80a350dcb_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19095834271_b80a350dcb_c-199x149.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan P.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Under the Lion Rocks is a way of saying the Hong Kong Peoples\u2019 spirit, that has been told since the 70s where Hong Kong was in its blossoming stage of economy. We worked hard and while lives were still simple. At the skirt of the Lion Rocks (Hill), it was where most the blue collars lived and worked. There were planes flying in and out of the former International Airport in Kowloon City was also in the area. You could picture a very different Kowloon Peninsula back then. We were so proud of the beautiful names that we sought after.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1055\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alanala.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1055 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18470033884_02f28bc5d8_c.jpg\" alt=\"18470033884_02f28bc5d8_c\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18470033884_02f28bc5d8_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18470033884_02f28bc5d8_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18470033884_02f28bc5d8_c-199x149.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan P.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">This was the golden era from the past. That\u2019s until when Hong Kongese understand the fear of our future and worry what comes next. It\u2019s always too late to realize but never too late to catch up though. The past of \u2018Spirit of Lion Rocks\u2019 \u2013 how we used to work hard had been already replaced by the \u2018Spirit of Victoria Peak\u2019 \u2013 the cruel reality, to another mountain so to speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Written by Alan P. Read the whole article:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/alanala.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/alanala.wordpress.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alanala.wordpress.com\/who-wrote-all-these\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alan P.<\/a><\/span> is a Hong Kong born &amp; breed photographer\/blogger.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">His interest in the fast changing society of Hong Kong, discovering that the old is no longing in the new anymore.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">He finds his way to represent Hong Kong in photographs and essays through his blog. He also enjoys photo-documenting the local heritages and festivals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Lion Rocks is a way of saying the Hong Kong Peoples\u2019 spirit, that has been told since the 70s where Hong Kong was in its blossoming stage of economy. We worked hard and while lives were still simple. At the skirt of the Lion Rocks (Hill), it was where most the blue collars &#8230; <a title=\"Hong Kong: Cruel Reality\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1053\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Hong Kong: Cruel Reality\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}