{"id":1024,"date":"2023-12-04T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:43:39","slug":"planet-of-the-monkeys-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/planet-of-the-monkeys-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet of the Monkeys (in Hong Kong)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong is, appropriately, known for its bustling streets and population density and soaring skyscrapers.<\/p>\n

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Kowloon, Hong Kong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yet walk uphill (and up steps) from the hectic congestion of Kowloon and the urban landscape gives way first to rolling hills, then a reservoir, and then a paved path where there are no people but monkeys roam freely. Planet of the Monkeys.<\/p>\n

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Planet of the Monkeys, in Hong Kong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I felt like a visitor, even an intruder. An unwelcome outsider whose presence was outwardly tolerated and inwardly despised. <\/p>\n

For me the eeriness of the scene underscored the vastness of our planet and the variety of life on it, and silently asked the question: To whom does our planet belong?<\/p>\n



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Monkeys in Hong Kong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I felt like a visitor, even an intruder. And the eeriness of the scene underscored the vastness of our planet and the variety of life on it, and silently asked the question: To whom does our planet belong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[54,142,37,36,102,63,58],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postcards","tag-hong-kong","tag-kowloon","tag-monkey","tag-travel","tag-travel-photography","tag-travel-postcard","tag-58"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}