{"id":1632,"date":"2007-07-27T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrrl.com\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2007-07-27T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:06:00","slug":"indie-bloggers-23-hole-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2007\/indie-bloggers-23-hole-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Bloggers #23 &#8211; Hole to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiebloggers.org\/challenge\/\">Indie Blogger Weekly Challenge<\/span> #23<\/p>\n<p>Up to 250 words regarding: As a sewer inspector in Milwaukee, you\u2019re used to roaches, rats, the occasional alligator. You\u2019re a pro. But today was different. 135 feet into a 3\u00d75 tunnel, alone, you find:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">That famous (infamous?) hole to China which kids have been trying to dig for countless generations. I always expected to find it on some beach, in a garden or backyard. Last place I would have expected to see someone had finally succeeded in digging a hole to China would be in the sewers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">I jumped in. It was a long drop, I did wonder about the landing but once I was falling it was too late to really worry much about it. Halfway down it got unbearably hot and humid. I think I passed out for part of the trip then. I woke up and I was there, in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">I did get a great Chinese food lunch. Getting back turned out to be really tough. I couldn&#8217;t find any Chinese kids who had dug a hole to Canada yet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2007\/indie-bloggers-23-hole-to-china\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Indie Bloggers #23 &#8211; Hole to China\"><p>Indie Blogger Weekly Challenge #23 Up to 250 words regarding: As a sewer inspector in Milwaukee, you\u2019re used to roaches, rats, the occasional alligator. You\u2019re a pro. But today was different. 135 feet into a 3\u00d75 tunnel, alone, you find: That famous (infamous?) hole to China which kids have been trying to dig for countless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[869],"tags":[972,219,83,357,367,1196,119,764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}