{"id":4856,"date":"2017-01-02T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2017-01-02T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T12:57:42","slug":"before-the-heavenly-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/?p=4856","title":{"rendered":"Before the heavenly gate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170102-20161105-China-01942-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170102-20161105-China-01942-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170102-20161105-China-01942-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170102-20161105-China-01942-2.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before the heavenly gate. After I left Xingping, I flew to Kunming, Yunnan. As the capital of this province, this is a big city of around 10 million inhabitants, a beautiful center surrounded by miles of suburbs. I found the Golden Temple park there: a very well preserved Taoist temple. It was a bit of a let down, as most of the old buildings are invaded by shops and snacks. After a few hours walking there, succeeding hysterical music and Zen moments, I found this old door, away from the crowd. A monk was walking down too, and when he saw my camera, offered to pose for me with a smile (kinda reminds me <a href=\"http:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/?p=2946\">this picture<\/a> I took a while ago).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,468],"tags":[470,469,76,66],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-kunming","tag-china","tag-kunming","tag-monk","tag-temple","post_format-post-format-image"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}