{"id":1411,"date":"2008-09-10T06:39:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianramblings.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2008-09-10T06:39:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:39:35","slug":"bowling-for-renminbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/bowling-for-renminbi\/","title":{"rendered":"bowling for renminbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1412\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1412\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/china-bowling\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?fit=550%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,436\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"china-bowling\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bowling in China &amp;#8211; Will bowling for dollars be on television?&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bowling in China &amp;#8211; Will bowling for dollars be on television?&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?fit=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?fit=550%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1412\" title=\"china-bowling\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?resize=500%2C396\" alt=\"Bowling in China - Will bowling for dollars be on television?\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?resize=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?resize=250%2C198&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?resize=227%2C180&amp;ssl=1 227w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/china-bowling.jpg?resize=378%2C300&amp;ssl=1 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bowling in China - Will bowling for dollars be on television?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes I lament the progress China has made. An economic powerhouse? Yes. A quickly developing nation of 1.4 billion? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>In need of alleys, ugly shoes, and the associated bowling paraphernalia? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>This looks like a shot I would have taken in high school, when I spent hours in the darkroom, falling in love with the noxious odor of developer and fixer. Thanks to Alien Skin Software and their Adobe Photoshop plug-in &#8211;\u00a0 Exposure 2 &#8211; digital images can be given traditional film profile and grain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: medium dotted; padding: 3mm; text-align: center;\"><em>New here? You may want to subscribe to my <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/icon_rss.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/AsianRamblings\">RSS feed<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2005862&amp;loc=en_US\">subscribe by email<\/a>. Thanks for visiting!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowling in China &#8211; Will bowling for dollars be on television?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,7,8],"tags":[79,718,725],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-photography","category-photoshop","tag-chinese","tag-photograph","tag-photoshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China | Bowling in China | China Photos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bowling in China - 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