{"id":176,"date":"2007-09-01T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-02-28T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:18:44","slug":"ten-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_00.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, I am not referring to the accident that killed Princess Diana.\u00a0 It was when I left Madison, Wisconsin, the city where I had lived for seven years\u00a0for my postgraduate study.\u00a0 I heard the news about Princess Di at friends&#8217; apartment because I had sold everything in my apartment, including the TV.\u00a0 The next morning another friend drove me to the bus station, thus ending my seven-year stay in Madison.<\/p>\n<p>I consider Madison my second home.\u00a0 Actually, while I was still living there,\u00a0I had thought that I would never leave the city!\u00a0 I missed the place a lot after I had left.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_01.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_02.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_03.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_04.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_05.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_06.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In May 2001, I was back in Madison again.\u00a0 I felt that I had never left the place because everything was so familiar to me, despite some new buildings.\u00a0 That visit cured my &#8220;homesick&#8221;.\u00a0 I still want to go back if I have a chance.\u00a0 (In fact, I did so once in a while, in my dreams.)\u00a0 But now I know I must move on.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_07.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/madison_08.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not referring to the accident that killed Princess Diana.\u00a0 It was when I left Madison, Wisconsin, the city where I had lived for seven years\u00a0for my postgraduate study.\u00a0 I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}