{"id":243,"date":"2008-03-15T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T03:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-03-15T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T03:58:58","slug":"day-273-shaoguan-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Day 273 &#8211; Shaoguan, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up early and made a side trip to a city called Shaoguan in northern Guangdong Province. I took the cheap train there in the morning, which was kind of crowded and uncomfortable. Once there I took a bus to Hanhua Temple, which is a little famous for the mummy of the 6th Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hui_Neng\">Hui Neng<\/a>. The body was in a sitting posture behind glass and looked almost like a sculpture. Actually I was the only westerner I saw there since the place isn&#8217;t in my guidebook.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back, I had to wait in a quite long line at the train station for a ticket. The train was a little higher class for the return trip. Some Chinese guys talked to me, one in English. Here in south China I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of Chinese people trying to make friends with me, I think because I&#8217;m not in the main tourist areas of the country right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up early and made a side trip to a city called Shaoguan in northern Guangdong Province. I took the cheap train there in the morning, which was kind of crowded and uncomfortable. Once there I took a bus to Hanhua Temple, which is a little famous for the mummy of the 6th Patriarch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 273 &#8211; Shaoguan, China&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}