{"id":933,"date":"2013-06-15T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=933"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:48:01","slug":"our-dear-friend-helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/15\/our-dear-friend-helen\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Dear Friend, Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/15\/our-dear-friend-helen\/img_0254\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-962\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0254-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0254-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0254-750x562.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/15\/our-dear-friend-helen\/img_0247\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-961\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-961\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0247-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0247-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0247-750x562.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helen\u2019s Restaurant and Bar is frequented by Americans as well as visitors from all over the country. It offers delicious food, American music, and an environment that makes you feel at home even in the middle of China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We went to Helen\u2019s several times. The first night we went, several of our cabs got lost. My cab actually got dropped off across the street and we had to basically scale a wall in the middle of the highway. Just before going to KFC for directions, we found our friends and found Helen\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you walk in to Helen\u2019s, it seems very sketchy and run-down. There is a stairwell you have to go up and you feel like you are in a scene from <em>Saw, <\/em>but THEN you enter a warm, cozy pub with flags representing different countries and low lights that set the mood for a relaxing night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As soon as we walked in the first night, \u201cNo Diggity\u201d was playing and we knew we were in an American place. We had delicious food and got to dance and sing with other Americans from Florida and people from all over the U.S. and the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Helen\u2019s made us feel right at home. We visited there a few times and went one last time a few nights before we left Tianjin. Saying goodbye to Helen\u2019s was hard. She will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen\u2019s Restaurant and Bar is frequented by Americans as well as visitors from all over the country. It offers delicious food, American music, and an environment that makes you feel at home even in the middle of China. &nbsp; We went to Helen\u2019s several times. The first night we went, several of our cabs got lost. My cab actually got dropped off across the street and we had to basically scale a wall in the middle of the highway. Just before going to KFC for directions, we found our friends and found Helen\u2019s. &nbsp; When you walk in to Helen\u2019s,<a href=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/15\/our-dear-friend-helen\/\"> &#8230; \/\/ <b>Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,157,66,63,84,83,52,53,57],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-america","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-experience","tag-learn","tag-study","tag-study-abroad","tag-travel","tag-una"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0247.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}