{"id":331,"date":"2008-01-22T23:38:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-01-22T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T05:38:13","slug":"ferry-to-penang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Ferry to Penang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang1.jpg\" title=\"penang1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang1.jpg\" alt=\"penang1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Penang island was a free port in the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s, but then lost its free trade status. (At about the same time, Langkawi was designated a free port. \u00a0I don\u2019t understand the politics of this at all.) \u00a0That means that Georgetown (the main city on Penang) looks a bit run down, as there hasn\u2019t been a lot of recent investment. \u00a0It feels like a boomtown that\u2019s in between booms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">The population of Penang is overwhelmingly southern Chinese. \u00a0This makes it another great food city, much like Singapore. \u00a0There seems to be a fair amount of tension between Chinese-dominated Penang and Malay-dominated Malaysia (of which Penang is a part) but I have no idea how that plays out in practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">Here are a bunch of skyline photos that I took on the way into town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang2.jpg\" title=\"penang2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang2.jpg\" alt=\"penang2.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang3.jpg\" title=\"penang3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang3.jpg\" alt=\"penang3.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang4.jpg\" title=\"penang4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang4.jpg\" alt=\"penang4.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang5.jpg\" title=\"penang5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/penang5.jpg\" alt=\"penang5.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">Everyone blames the haze on \u2018Indonesian forest fires\u2019. \u00a0I don\u2019t quite understand what that would mean &#8212; we\u2019re a long way from Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penang island was a free port in the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s, but then lost its free trade status. (At about the same time, Langkawi was designated a free port. \u00a0I don\u2019t understand the politics of this at all.) \u00a0That means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}