{"id":8,"date":"2017-05-04T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T10:48:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background &amp; Introductions<\/strong>\u00a0or getting behind the \u2018<em>Where are you from?<\/em>\u2019 question<\/p>\n<p>Originally, I come from Lithuania&#8217;s capital Vilnius. To avoid the brain itch, \u2018<em>Lithuania\u2026 sounds familiar, where is it?<\/em>\u2019, I go ahead and burst the wonder: Lithuania is a beautiful, green, small Baltic state in the North of Europe. Yes, North, that is correct, or at least some of the classifications agree with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My husband is French, from the region of Bordeaux. Yes, the region of great wine and chateaux&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And just until recently we both used to live in Switzerland (the happy-French part, not the serious-but-economically-more-prosperous German part).<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2017 &#8211; a big adventure came knocking our door. An opportunity in China came along my husband&#8217;s professional path. And we said <em>yes<\/em>. And this is how we ended up <strong>moving to Beijing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This online journal is about our new life in China and our travels in general.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-158\" src=\"http:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4565-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4565-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4565-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4565-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4565.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background &amp; Introductions\u00a0or getting behind the \u2018Where are you from?\u2019 question Originally, I come from Lithuania&#8217;s capital Vilnius. To avoid the brain itch, \u2018Lithuania\u2026 sounds familiar, where is it?\u2019, I go ahead and burst the wonder: Lithuania is a beautiful, green, small Baltic state in the North of Europe. Yes, North, that is correct, or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/about\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}