{"id":231,"date":"2012-09-09T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=231"},"modified":"2020-01-28T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:52:37","slug":"the-school-that-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"The school that failed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The flag has sunk half-mast. So has the basketball board. The school is closed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man minding the premises explains that the road from Maduo was too unreliable a supply line. It passes straight through a swamp, often is not passable. Then staff and students ended up without provisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A case of idealism overtaken by reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/flag-half-mast.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/basketball-board-half-mast.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The retreat of \u2018development\u2019, civilisation\u2019 or whatever you like to call it may be temporary though. China 2012 is determined not to let nature obstruct its countless infrastructural projects. On a low ridge on the horizon bulldozers and heavy trucks are moving about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years from now? Who\u2019s to say? A tourist bus on a short stop at a small school, ten kilometers of asphalt to go to its destination, the head of the Yellow River?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flag has sunk half-mast. So has the basketball board. The school is closed down. The man minding the premises explains that the road from Maduo was too unreliable a supply line. It passes straight through a swamp, often is not passable. Then staff and students ended up without provisions. A case of idealism overtaken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The school that failed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,15,14,13],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chin-eng","tag-china","tag-qinghai","tag-source","tag-yellow-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}