{"id":933,"date":"2015-09-19T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2015-09-19T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T16:44:55","slug":"many-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/pearlescence\/many-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Many steps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back home. I think this was the best HK trip I&#8217;ve ever had, with great pearls and fabulous friends for company and food. I took my pedometer with me and this is the steps count:<br \/>\naverage of days before show proper going around wholesalers in Kowloon: 8,500<br \/>\nFirst day of show:12,729<br \/>\nsecond day of show :7,507<br \/>\nwalking around airports there and back: 8453 (Airbus A380 tends to need a parking spot at the ends of the gates)<br \/>\nI took a quick snap of the pearl hall (one of 15 halls at one of the two venues) as I left. This is the view of one aisle. Maybe 20 stands&#8230;and there were 25 aisles. 15 halls<br \/>\nI never got out of the pearl hall!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_934\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8kAyC3ZP.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-934\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-934\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8kAyC3ZP-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong Gem Show\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8kAyC3ZP-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8kAyC3ZP.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8kAyC3ZP-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view along just one aisle in the pearl hall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back home. I think this was the best HK trip I&#8217;ve ever had, with great pearls and fabulous friends for company and food. I took my pedometer with me and this is the steps count: average of days before show proper going around wholesalers in Kowloon: 8,500 First day of show:12,729 second day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}