{"id":999,"date":"2012-03-11T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2012-03-11T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T14:01:05","slug":"999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/999\/","title":{"rendered":"Guanyin Buddha&#8217;s birthday eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words can&#8217;t really describe what we experienced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>We were having some dinner after an amazing afternoon of visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lukang,_Changhua\" target=\"_blank\">Lukang<\/a> Temple when we heard some drums and music out in the street.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guanyin\" target=\"_blank\">Guanyin<\/a> Buddha&#8217;s birthday! We had no idea that we would come across what you&#8217;re about to see. These are videos of a ceremony where other temples have sent their Buddhas to wish her happy birthday (it&#8217;s obviously more complex and spiritual than that).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UE67Jj5LOzs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OGqeMo9sJMc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFQIzXufxYA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amazing!!<br \/>\n~Virginia<\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted to our <a href=\"http:\/\/gsetaiwan2012.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GSE blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words can&#8217;t really describe what we experienced yesterday. We were having some dinner after an amazing afternoon of visiting the Lukang Temple when we heard some drums and music out in the street. Today is Guanyin Buddha&#8217;s birthday! We had no idea that we would come across what you&#8217;re about to see. These are videos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3zorl-999","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}