{"id":1639,"date":"2007-03-28T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-28T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T11:59:35","slug":"begging-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/begging-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Begging Extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought these very long pole nets, invented by these kids in China, are an ingenious solution to a problem of many kids in the developing world: need some money. Their particular problem was that scores of tourists float by in boats going down a scenic river, but they don&#8217;t get quite close enough to  beg money from. Some tourists would be willing to donate if they could get some money to the boys. The solution is to lash a fishing net to a long bamboo pole which can reach the boats are certain turns. The boys reach their poles out and the tourist deposit the bills. The one in the picture is dropping a red 100 renbi note which is worth about US$8. That&#8217;s a big tip for these guys. But the solution is so clever I&#8217;d almost be willing to give them something for their effort. The photographer and source for this picture is unknown; I found it at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonaeuropa.com\/20041226_1.htm\">site<\/a> of China photos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/beggingextensions.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Beggingextensions\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought these very long pole nets, invented by these kids in China, are an ingenious solution to a problem of many kids in the developing world: need some money. Their particular problem was that scores of tourists float by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/begging-extensions\/\">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":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}