{"id":5185,"date":"2009-01-15T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2009-01-15T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:14:51","slug":"how_to_get_a_ticket_home_for_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/transport\/how_to_get_a_ticket_home_for_t.php","title":{"rendered":"How to get a ticket home for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JDM090115ticket.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/2009\/01\/15\/JDM090115ticket.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"129\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As the Spring Festival nears and the annual travel rush accelerates toward a pre-festival peak between January 20 and 24, tickets are becoming increasingly difficult to come by.<\/p>\n<p>An old joke about a clever way to score a ride out of Beijng has surfaced on a number of blogs and forums. Sichuan-based blogger Zeng Ying reposted the story under the title &#8220;An awesome ticketless seat&#8221; and notes, &#8220;This story was found on the Internet and may be made-up; use your best judgment&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A colleague of mine received an emergency notice from a client asking him to come sign an order in Changchun the next day. Scrambling to reserve a ticket, he discovered that all the day&#8217;s train tickets were sold out, and the airlines only had 15% discounted tickets left (the company wouldn&#8217;t cover anything beyond half the full ticket price).<\/p>\n<p>My colleague lamented, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there any cheap way to get to Changchun?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another colleague he was on pretty good terms with came over and whispered in his ear. &#8220;&#8230;..don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ve always done it that way!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So that afternoon, my colleague took a whole bunch of scrap A4 paper from the copy machine, stapled it into a packet, and then took a taxi to the gate of the State Letters and Complaints Bureau, where he got out, held up the packet, and shouting: &#8220;The people of Changchun are in dire straits!&#8221; Instantly, a Naveco van pulled up in front of him, and quick as lightning he was pushed inside and sent straight off to Changchun. He didn&#8217;t even have to pay for a meal on the way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"lshead\">Links and Sources<\/div>\n<div class=\"lstext\">\n<ul>\n<li>Zeng Ying&#8217;s blog (Chinese): <A href=\"http:\/\/blog.sina.com.cn\/s\/blog_58daf6670100bqtm.html\">An awesome ticketless seat<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Image via <i>Metropolitan Express<\/i> via Sina (Chinese): <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sina.com.cn\/c\/p\/20090114\/08355457.shtml\">Massive ticket displayed in front of sales office<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of advice on how to score a seat on a crowded Spring Festival train.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/transport\/how_to_get_a_ticket_home_for_t.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[586,1738,3283,546,801],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transport","tag-altcat","tag-chunyun","tag-spring-festival-rush","tag-trains","tag-zeng-ying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}