{"id":3889,"date":"2012-07-23T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2012-07-24T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T13:55:48","slug":"chinatown-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3889 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121250.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121250-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121250-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121250-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3890'>\n\t\t\t\tCHINESE AMERICAN\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121253.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121253-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121253-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121253-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3891'>\n\t\t\t\tBANK OF AMERICA\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121303.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121303-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121303-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121303-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3892'>\n\t\t\t\tGRANT STREET\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121418.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121418-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121418-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121418-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3893'>\n\t\t\t\tCITIBANK\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121443.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121443-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121443-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chinatown-7-22-12-121443-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3894'>\n\t\t\t\tEAST WEST BANK\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Anyone who was not chinese had a camera around their neck; I looked just like every other tourist. It is stepping into another world; the sights and colors are exciting. I started out with a different thought for this post and as I began to look over the photos a pattern emerged; the banks. The effort they had made to integrate into the culture I found striking. The churches were another institution that made great efforts to integrate, the exception being the catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>On the square was music and singing, for me one of the areas that made the cultural distinction. It would definitely not be my choice in music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who was not chinese had a camera around their neck; I looked just like every other tourist. It is stepping into another world; the sights and colors are exciting. I started out with a different thought for this post and as I began to look over the photos a pattern emerged; the banks. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1396],"tags":[1397,2592,2391],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinatown","tag-bank","tag-chinatown","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}