{"id":298,"date":"2007-01-16T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T06:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=298"},"modified":"2007-01-16T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T06:20:51","slug":"how-old-are-you-in-chinese-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"How old are you in Chinese terms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a baby is born in China, using the old traditional method of counting one&#8217;s age, the child is already one. Then a year is added each Chinese New Year. So, on this basis, everyone in China is a year or two older than their chronological age.<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2006\/11\/how_old_are_you.html\">blogged<\/a> about his before. But now &#8211; thanks to my Chinese friend Zhihao &#8211; I&#8217;ve found a web site that enables you to calculate your age in Chinese terms. You can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asia-home.com\/china\/cncaps.php\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe downside of this approach is that it makes you older than you are or probably want to be. The upside is that the Chinese vernerate the elderly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a baby is born in China, using the old traditional method of counting one&#8217;s age, the child is already one. Then a year is added each Chinese New Year. So, on this basis, everyone in China is a year or two older than their chronological age. i&#8217;ve blogged about his before. But now &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}