
{"id":435,"date":"2005-01-31T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslick.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2005-01-31T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T16:19:00","slug":"cultural-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been to quite a few Taiwanese wedding banquets, since my wife seems to know about half of Taiwan.  But thus far I had not experienced one of the rich cultural traditions of Taiwanese wedding banquets that I&#8217;d heard about.   But today I was finally able to experience this part of Taiwanese culture: wedding strippers.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Taiwanese tradition has it that no wedding banquet is complete without a few young girls gyrating to cheesy dance music before getting completely naked and then running around tables soliciting tips in exchange for a special dance and a close inspection of her implants.  I&#8217;m happy to report that besides the copious amounts of \u00e5\u008f\u00b0\u00e7\u0081\u00a3\u00e5\u2022\u00a4\u00e9\u2026\u2019, \u00e6\u00b8\u2026\u00e9\u2026\u2019, and Matisse, this little bit of culture makes it well worth sitting around on a little red plastic stool for hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been to quite a few Taiwanese wedding banquets, since my wife seems to know about half of Taiwan. But thus far I had not experienced one of the rich cultural traditions of Taiwanese wedding banquets that I&#8217;d heard about. But today I was finally able to experience this part of Taiwanese culture: wedding strippers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cultural Experiences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}