{"id":418,"date":"2013-11-13T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evince.net\/?p=418"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T07:20:51","slug":"back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Back to basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evince.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-425\" alt=\"IMG_1047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.evince.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1047-540x270.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1047-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.evince.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1047-510x255.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.evince.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1047.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes when I see isolated huts built on a mountain range, I just feel like I should be a kaypoh and go in to see what on earth humans do in desolate places like these.<\/p>\n<p>The tour guide says that the Chinese government has a lot of trouble keeping the population of the Yi tribe, who live in the area, in check. The first difficulty is that the people of the Yi tribe are rather nomadic and they move so often, it is difficult to track them.<\/p>\n<p>In their defence, the people of the Yi tribe tell the government that since the officials don&#8217;t bother to run electricity to their homes, they have no other form of entertainment at night.<\/p>\n<p>So they do what comes naturally when lonely, oppositely sexed humans do when they happen to be alone with each other in the night without their handphones. I can just see it.<\/p>\n<p>Yi man and woman staring at each other after fifteen minutes of candle-lit silence.<br \/>\nYi man: Getting dark.<br \/>\nYi woman: Yes.<br \/>\nYi man: &#8230;<br \/>\nYi woman: &#8230;<br \/>\nYi man: I think I want to fuck you.<br \/>\nYi woman: Okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I see isolated huts built on a mountain range, I just feel like I should be a kaypoh and go in to see what on earth humans do in desolate places like these. The tour guide says that the Chinese government has a lot of trouble keeping the population of the Yi tribe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43,41,42],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-sex","tag-yi-tribe","tag-yunnan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1047.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evince.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}