{"id":17,"date":"2011-10-02T22:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:10:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:10:56","slug":"xi-chuan-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

A semi-professional photographer was at Thursday’s reading in Seattle (I’ll get her photo-documentation soon, I hope), but here’s a picture of Xi Chuan outside the Monsoon Caf\u00e9 Paul Manfredi <\/a>took with his phone:<\/p>\n

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Xi Chuan outside the Moonsoon Cafe, Seattle<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A semi-professional photographer was at Thursday’s reading in Seattle (I’ll get her photo-documentation soon, I hope), but here’s a picture of Xi Chuan outside the Monsoon Caf\u00e9 Paul Manfredi took with his phone:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31,9,7],"tags":[24,32,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":594,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=594","url_meta":{"origin":17,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan at Seattle Public Library","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On January 9, three days after Xi Chuan's talk at the MLA, the Seattle Public Library will host a reading with him and Prof. Paul Manfredi in an event co-sponsored by the Elliot Bay Book Company. 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