{"id":132,"date":"2010-09-01T12:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T04:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=132"},"modified":"2011-03-22T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:24:10","slug":"its-a-chinese-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/its-a-chinese-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s A Chinese Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed the recent Chinese fascination with stainless steel? The shiny metal adorns the front entrance of so many Chinese homes these days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_204\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204  \" title=\"Shiny Thing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless14.jpg\" alt=\"Shiny Thing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless14.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless14-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless14-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiny Thing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Being practical folks, they are probably attracted to the maintenance-free and longer lasting properties of stainless steel. It is ideal under our weather, especially when used for gates and grills.<\/p>\n<p>So what can you give a Chinese homeowner who has every chrome railing and bannister?\u00a0 No. Not blue roof tiles. That is passe. Get him a set of matching, shiny stainless steel water tanks lah. It must be externally mounted though. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_205\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205\" class=\"size-full wp-image-205  \" title=\"My Tangki Is Bigger Than Your Tangi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless23.jpg\" alt=\"More Shiny Things\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless23.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless23-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stainless23-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spotted:  3-in-1 roof top symbols and obsession.  Stainless steel tank with stainless steel fence \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed the recent Chinese fascination with stainless steel? The shiny metal adorning the front entrance of so many Chinese homes these days&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/its-a-chinese-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,8,25],"tags":[75,78,72,73,76,74,77],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour-2","category-life","category-news-commentary","tag-culture","tag-fashion","tag-lifestyle","tag-living","tag-malaysiana","tag-observations","tag-trend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}