{"id":12537,"date":"2014-02-18T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/meiyicheng\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-02-18T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T22:24:38","slug":"january-recap-auto-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/january-recap-auto-show\/","title":{"rendered":"January Highlights&#8211;Auto Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first month of 2014 was pretty laid-back for me (except work). With 40 inches of snow, I decided to socially hibernate and fully enjoy playing my Djembe drum at home. When I was not hibernating, I went on a trip in Texas, adventured the North American International Auto Show, and hosted a Chinese New Year party at my host company, Mango Languages.<\/p>\n<p>I have never been a big fan of cars but even I found the auto show to be a blast.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/XlHS0XBol5KyFbHuXwgQGgaKbMyOjjBDtndDWSg-h18=w1124-h843-no\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-OD5vd-XXKIU\/Utw0aMpxlJI\/AAAAAAAAGQg\/n2AO-B4zsio\/w632-h843-no\/IMG_20140119_151928.jpg\" width=\"632\" height=\"843\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-N0hLpqj5Xv0\/UtxdgEvsqiI\/AAAAAAAAGRY\/wm6rcNdEQ1o\/w1124-h843-no\/IMG_20140119_135039.jpg\" width=\"1124\" height=\"843\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This might sound nerdy but my ideal type of transportation is definitely teleportation. No more worries about the skyrocketing gas price, no more fear for car accidents, no more should-I-wash-my-car-now-or-wait-for-the-next-snowstorm hesitation. Well, I don&#8217;t really know if teleportation will feasible at a certain point in the future, but technological advancement is always an exciting thing to me.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I think that counts for the popularity of auto show among the general public, apart from its many obvious reasons, is the hope it brings. President Snow from the <em>Hunger Game<\/em> once said: &#8220;Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. Spark is fine, as long as it&#8217;s contained.&#8221; Shows like this give effective dozes of hope to the audiences, assuring them a promising future of the related fields and a better tomorrow in their life accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>After getting a doze of the automobile hope in the automotive capitol of the world, I crossed off one more thing off my Motown To Do List, feeling content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first month of 2014 was pretty laid-back for me (except work). With 40 inches of snow, I decided to socially hibernate and fully enjoy playing my Djembe drum at home. When I was not hibernating, I went on a trip in Texas, adventured the North American International Auto Show, and hosted a Chinese New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}