{"id":188913,"date":"2015-12-04T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=188913"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:34:40","slug":"feng-zhenghu-a-day-to-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/12\/feng-zhenghu-a-day-to-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"Feng Zhenghu: A Day to Reflect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After he was\u00a0denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo\u2019s Narita Airport for 92 days in 2009-2010. Now\u00a0Feng is telling the story of his airport odyssey on his blog, and CDT is translating his account.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is part 40. Read previous installments\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/narita-airport-diary\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>December 12, 2009<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today is December 12, my 39th day camped outside the gate to Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 12:30 p.m. the chief examiner on duty today delivered the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/10\/feng-zhenghu-gifts-from-uncle-wah\/#letter\">tenth official notice<\/a>. Its content was the same as yesterday&#8217;s, except for the date. I also took a picture with him, and submitted the &#8220;Feng Zhenghu Presents the December 12 Official Letter (No. 10) from the Government of Japan to the Government of China&#8221; to online media for publication, including the picture I took with the Japanese official.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Saturday and Sunday I gave no interviews, neither in person nor over the phone. So I could relax a bit. I spent this morning and afternoon thinking about writing a substantial essay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If any friends will pass through here, please bring a USB keyboard. You can buy one at most computer shops. Thank you. Now that I&#8217;m using an on-screen keyboard to write, typing is very slow. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/2015\/07\/%E6%88%90%E7%94%B0%E6%9C%BA%E5%9C%BA%E6%97%A5%E8%AE%B0%EF%BC%8840%EF%BC%89%EF%BC%9A%E5%91%A8%E5%85%AD%E3%80%81%E5%91%A8%E6%97%A5%E4%B8%8D%E6%8E%A5%E5%BE%85%E7%8E%B0%E5%9C%BA%E9%87%87%E8%AE%BF\/\">Chinese<\/a><\/strong>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation by Little Bluegill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After he was\u00a0denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo\u2019s Narita Airport for 92 days in 2009-2010. Now\u00a0Feng is telling the story of his airport odyssey on his blog, and CDT is translating his account. 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December 12, 2009 Today is December 12, my 39th day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":188189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,116,34,14744,14745,14746,100,5,4202,14747],"tags":[8327,70,8375,16775],"class_list":["post-188913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-world","category-human-rights","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","category-vov","tag-feng-zhenghu","tag-japan","tag-narita-airport","tag-narita-airport-diary","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feng Zhenghu: A Day to Reflect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/12\/feng-zhenghu-a-day-to-reflect\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feng Zhenghu: A Day to Reflect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After he was\u00a0denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo\u2019s Narita Airport for 92 days in 2009-2010. 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