{"id":258,"date":"2008-03-31T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=258"},"modified":"2008-03-31T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:19:08","slug":"day-288-kunming-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Day 288 &#8211; Kunming, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave another attempt at the Bamboo Temple. The hostel staff said I have to go to a slightly different spot around the corner on the road. But still, I didn&#8217;t see any bus waiting. Back at the hostel again, they said the bus doesn&#8217;t start there but it passes there. I went back again and still didn&#8217;t see anything like that passing.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time I got some directions from a friend. I got on a bus, but after one minute and one stop, everyone got off the bus. It was the end of the line! I asked the driver how to get to the stop I wanted, and she pointed be to go to the other side of the road. I walk over there, I see the same bus to a U-Turn and I board it again. The driver wants me to pay a second time. I said no and got on the bus anyway, since I was angry. According to my directions I had to more buses to transfer to. Just before I was to board the second bus the battery in my phone dies along with my directions. I decided to turn around and go back.<\/p>\n<p>I had a train to catch later in the night too. 8PM train for Chengdu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave another attempt at the Bamboo Temple. The hostel staff said I have to go to a slightly different spot around the corner on the road. But still, I didn&#8217;t see any bus waiting. Back at the hostel again, they said the bus doesn&#8217;t start there but it passes there. I went back &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 288 &#8211; Kunming, 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\/258"}],"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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}