{"id":5822,"date":"2018-05-16T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2019-08-03T03:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T10:37:10","slug":"pink-floyd-the-wall-and-a-taiwan-tenement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5822","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd: The Wall and a Taiwan Tenement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Dan and I lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in the early 1990s, we resided on the top floor of a firetrap building near Love River (a poetic name but there were turds floating in it). The housing was provided by Jordan&#8217;s Language School, the &#8220;bushiban&#8221; (private school) for which we were working.<\/p>\n<p>The apartment came with a TV, a VCR, and a single video tape&#8211;Pink Floyd&#8217;s <em>The Wall<\/em>, which I remember seeing&#8230; more than a few (hundred) times! No surprise then that\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Wall<\/em> is imprinted quite indelibly in my consciousness. When I was\u00c2\u00a0teaching high school English in California, I had not forgotten being in high school myself, nor had I forgotten the lines from Pink Floyd&#8217;s The Wall:\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shout-out to B. Sadie in Washington!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YR5ApYxkU-U?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\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dan and I lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in the early 1990s, we resided on the top floor of a firetrap building near Love River (a poetic name but there were turds floating in it). The housing was provided by Jordan&#8217;s Language School, the &#8220;bushiban&#8221; (private school) for which we were working. 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