{"id":209,"date":"2015-04-20T22:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-04-20T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:02:04","slug":"another-day-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/2015\/04\/20\/another-day-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was China&#8217;s famous Qing Ming Jie Holiday, also known as Tomb Sweeping Holiday. It is an important day to offer sacrifice to ancestors. The holiday started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of over 2500 years. In the streets, one will see many people burning a paper offering with incense. There is so much culture here and it is very interesting to learn about it. Most of the time, due to a language barrier, I find out about things after I get back to the dorms and search for answers online. Thoroughly enjoying this time here in Dalian and loving the constant adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was China&#8217;s famous Qing Ming Jie Holiday, also known as Tomb Sweeping Holiday. It is an important day to offer sacrifice to ancestors. The holiday started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of over 2500 years. In the streets, one will see many people burning a paper offering with incense. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wp.missouristate.edu\/china\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}