{"id":6671,"date":"2015-12-01T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2015-12-01T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:13:17","slug":"this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Harbin: Edmonton Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

As pointed out in a previous article by <\/a>Erik Backstrom<\/a>, our sister city in China has their very own\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0Road (\u57c3\u5fb7\u8499\u987f\u8def or \u0100id\u00e9m\u00e9ngd\u00f9n l\u00f9<\/a>). It is a major arterial that connects two major ring roads and the Harbin-Taiping International Airport. It would be interesting to hear what Edmonton means to these commuters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Morning traffic jam on Edmonton Rd, Harbin due to a traffic signal power outage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As pointed out in a previous article by Erik Backstrom, our sister city in China has their very own\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0Road (\u57c3\u5fb7\u8499\u987f\u8def or \u0100id\u00e9m\u00e9ngd\u00f9n l\u00f9). It is a major arterial that connects two major ring roads and the Harbin-Taiping International Airport. It would be interesting to hear what Edmonton means to these commuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8111,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThis is Harbin: Edmonton Road - Spacing Edmonton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-\u57c3\u5fb7\u8499\u987f\u8def\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paul Giang\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/\",\"name\":\"This is Harbin: Edmonton Road - Spacing Edmonton\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/12\/aidemengdun2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-01T14:00:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/#\/schema\/person\/5c568d4ad3a9e6a81f55f1a6b7e94b5f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2015\/12\/01\/this-is-edmonton-%e5%9f%83%e5%be%b7%e8%92%99%e9%a1%bf%e8%b7%af\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/12\/aidemengdun2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/12\/aidemengdun2.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":699,\"caption\":\"Photo by S. 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