{"id":252,"date":"2008-03-29T00:41:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-03-29T00:41:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T15:41:56","slug":"day-282-dali-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Day 282 &#8211; Dali, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a famous lake next to the city. To gain access to the lake and to take a boat across and back they were asking about $20. It just seems silly considering how many lakes there are back in Michigan. Chinese people go crazy over lakes since there aren&#8217;t as many here.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese girl I met on the bus yesterday partnered me up for today only and we were able to take a horse drawn cart over to an area where we could get next to the lake for free. The other attraction is a the three pagodas (towers) which they charge nearly $20 to get into also. I took a look at them from the outside, and that was good enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>I was riding a bike today too. Unfortunately, a case with my sunglasses fell out of my pants while riding. It was dark by this time and I couldn&#8217;t find it on the road. These are the same pants I had when my wallet was stolen too. I think I need to throw them out soon so this doesn&#8217;t happen again, but I&#8217;ve already lost everything that&#8217;s been in my pockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a famous lake next to the city. To gain access to the lake and to take a boat across and back they were asking about $20. It just seems silly considering how many lakes there are back in Michigan. Chinese people go crazy over lakes since there aren&#8217;t as many here. The Chinese &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 282 &#8211; Dali, 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\/252"}],"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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}