{"id":119,"date":"2014-02-20T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2014-02-20T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:43:27","slug":"bryon-and-buddhas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Bryon and Buddhas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-CAM00384.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CAM00384.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-CAM00384.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-CAM00381.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CAM00381.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-CAM00381.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-CAM00365.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CAM00365.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-CAM00365.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of Buddhas today at the temple of Wat Pho.&nbsp; We started our gate 1 tour today with 39 people in it.&nbsp; That just seems like a huge number.&nbsp; I&#8217;m beginning to see the pluses and minuses with taking a tour.&nbsp; On the plus side you don&#8217;t have to think or worry too much about what to do or how to get places.&nbsp; The air conditioned bus is nice when it&#8217;s hot and muggy outside.&nbsp; The hotels are nicer than I would choose.&nbsp; On the downside you don&#8217;t see as much and get less cultural immersion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of Buddhas today at the temple of Wat Pho.&nbsp; We started our gate 1 tour today with 39 people in it.&nbsp; That just seems like a huge number.&nbsp; I&#8217;m beginning to see the pluses and minuses with taking a tour.&nbsp; On the plus side you don&#8217;t have to think or worry too much about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}