{"id":1251,"date":"2008-09-09T20:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2008-09-09T20:05:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T12:05:34","slug":"a-picture-paints-well-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/09\/09\/a-picture-paints-well-er\/","title":{"rendered":"A picture paints, well er&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1259\" title=\"pdiplogo\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pdiplogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"115\" \/>On our first day in Bali, we had hired a driver to fetch us from the airport to Tepi Sawah Villa, our pre-booked accommodation for our entire 6-day\u00a0vacation in Bali.<\/p>\n<p>On our journey to Tepi Sawah, I kept seeing red posters each\u00a0with the number 28 above a bull head at certain cross junctions or roundabouts. Out of curiosity I inquired the driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that sign showing the speed limit for vehicles?&#8221; I asked innocently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh that. It is a poster of a party.&#8221; quipped the driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, there&#8217;s going to be a party in town huh?&#8221; Wah, the Balinese folks were so &#8216;happening&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know Megawati? That&#8217;s her party&#8217;s poster. Election is coming soon.&#8221; the driver continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huh, so that&#8217;s the poster for a political party!&#8221; I exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought that&#8217;s an advertisement for red bull drink.&#8221; Darling added.<\/p>\n<p>A picture\u00a0paints a thousand words indeed. :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our first day in Bali, we had hired a driver to fetch us from the airport to Tepi Sawah Villa, our pre-booked accommodation for our entire 6-day\u00a0vacation in Bali. On our journey to Tepi Sawah, I kept seeing red<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/09\/09\/a-picture-paints-well-er\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  A picture paints, well er&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling","tag-bali-2008","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}