{"id":5190,"date":"2021-04-10T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T23:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2021-04-10T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T23:43:44","slug":"kowloon-walled-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5190","title":{"rendered":"Kowloon Walled City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Learning about Kowloon walled city has been <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1550\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">something of an adventure for me<\/a> over the years. Even though it&#8217;s long since been demolished, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cityofdarkness.co.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cityofdarkness.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s story is absolutely fascinating<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, imagine my joy when I found out there is existing footage from a film partly shot there. Here&#8217;s some of the relevant scenes from the 1984 Hong Kong movie <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088107\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088107\/\" target=\"_blank\">Long Arm of the Law<\/a> (Sang gong kei bing) 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w4gAejhILZ8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CooFDDAkUAw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about Kowloon walled city has been something of an adventure for me over the years. Even though it&#8217;s long since been demolished, it&#8217;s story is absolutely fascinating. So, imagine my joy when I found out there is existing footage from a film partly shot there. Here&#8217;s some of the relevant scenes from the 1984 Hong Kong movie Long Arm of the Law (Sang gong kei bing) 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1lI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5191,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}