{"id":1447,"date":"2006-10-10T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-10-10T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T11:33:18","slug":"like-a-peking-duck-in-the-wate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/like-a-peking-duck-in-the-wate\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Peking Duck in the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMore farmer-built vehicles. This one featured on the Chinese website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ytdaily.com.cn\/newscenter\/2006-09\/27\/content_1956881.htm\">SHM<\/a>, is an amphibious vehicle. Goes on dirt roads and rivers. According to a translation provided by the great China-watching website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtual-china.org\/2006\/09\/the_inventivene.html\">Virtual China<\/a>, the inventor has applied for a patent for the thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/car.jpg\" height=\"276\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Car\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:40pt;\">\n&#8220;On Sept. 25 [2006], 75-year old boatsman Hu Zeshen piloted the dual-use amphibious vehicle that he invented. Mr. Hu lives in Loudi city, Hunan Province, in southern China, and has spent his life working on ships plying China&#8217;s rivers and canals. He calls his invention &#8220;the Happy Boat.&#8221; The vehicle has a 5 horsepower diesel engine and a 1 horsepower electric engine.&#160; He and his wife plan to take the vehicle on holiday during China&#8217;s National Day vacation, to explore scenic waterways in other parts of his province.&#160; Mr. Hu will apply for a patent for his vehicle, too.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:40pt;\">\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/boat.jpg\" height=\"276\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Boat\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More farmer-built vehicles. This one featured on the Chinese website, SHM, is an amphibious vehicle. Goes on dirt roads and rivers. According to a translation provided by the great China-watching website Virtual China, the inventor has applied for a patent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/like-a-peking-duck-in-the-wate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}