{"id":15,"date":"2008-09-30T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-09-30T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T07:38:00","slug":"joining-the-tea-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/2008\/09\/joining-the-tea-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining the tea trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My career as an English tutor isn&#8217;t quite lucrative enough to support my extravagant lifestyle, so I sold out last week and joined the tea trade. The early 20th century tea trade, that is. In my career as assistant to a conniving British tea merchant, my main duty is telling the enemy that my boss is not available, but I also act as his intelligence officer, tea taster (haha), and muscle (haha). And I have to remember not to blink too much. Here I am with our driver.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BXkiQM4bSws\/SOM2KP-7PII\/AAAAAAAAAKM\/MgsVKerFhyE\/s1600-h\/IMG_0541.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BXkiQM4bSws\/SOM2KP-7PII\/AAAAAAAAAKM\/MgsVKerFhyE\/s320\/IMG_0541.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252101140161182850\" \/><\/a><br \/>That is the car in the background. We are not sure if it was made from scraps or if it fell through a warp hole.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BXkiQM4bSws\/SOM2lfJmJgI\/AAAAAAAAAKU\/gRDE-JUijNY\/s1600-h\/IMG_0545.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BXkiQM4bSws\/SOM2lfJmJgI\/AAAAAAAAAKU\/gRDE-JUijNY\/s320\/IMG_0545.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252101608088937986\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is me with one of the enemy bosses. Before he joined the tea business, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Chow\">Stephen Chow<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ng_Man_Tat\">Uncle Tat<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BXkiQM4bSws\/SOM3uhFY9FI\/AAAAAAAAAKc\/LH8q0euw8Jw\/s1600-h\/IMG_0552.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BXkiQM4bSws\/SOM3uhFY9FI\/AAAAAAAAAKc\/LH8q0euw8Jw\/s320\/IMG_0552.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252102862738617426\" \/><\/a><br \/>BTW, this post is not late or pre-dated. I wrote it in 1913, and <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">post<\/span>-dated it for your sakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My career as an English tutor isn&#8217;t quite lucrative enough to support my extravagant lifestyle, so I sold out last week and joined the tea trade. The early 20th century tea trade, that is. In my career as assistant to a conniving British tea merchant, my main duty is telling the enemy that my boss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/2008\/09\/joining-the-tea-trade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joining the tea trade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-fame","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldandgarden.whiled.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}