{"id":3007,"date":"2014-06-08T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2014-06-08T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:27:01","slug":"the-small-wild-goose-pagoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=3007","title":{"rendered":"The Small Wild Goose Pagoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi&#8217;an is famous for the Terracotta Warriors but also the Wild Goose Pagoda.\u00a0 When Buddhism first reached China, a few people were intrigued.\u00a0 So intrigued, they went to India to learn more about the religion and collect valuable sutras.\u00a0 Xuan Zang was the most famous for the journey and stored all the Buddhist relics in the Wild Goose Pagoda.\u00a0 In Xi&#8217;an, there is the big pagoda and a small pagoda.\u00a0 Today, I visited the small pagoda!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/dscf3650.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3001\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3650.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We climbed up 12 flight of stairs to see the city below.\u00a0 It was gorgeous! After standing at the top for a few minutes, our professor informed us that an earthquake split the pagoda in half.\u00a0 Yet decades later another earthquake caused it to come together again.\u00a0 Promptly after hearing this &#8220;fun fact&#8221; I decided to climb down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/dscf3630.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3002\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3630.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/dscf3634.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3003\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3634.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back down on the ground, I explored the garden which was brimming with blooming flowers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/dscf3639.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3004\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3639.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/dscf3642.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3005\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3642.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/dscf3640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3006\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3640.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a beautiful place, filled with history and nature.\u00a0 It is peaceful places such as these that I will miss most in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi&#8217;an is famous for the Terracotta Warriors but also the Wild Goose Pagoda.\u00a0 When Buddhism first reached China, a few people were intrigued.\u00a0 So intrigued, they went to India to learn more about the religion and collect valuable sutras.\u00a0 Xuan Zang was the most famous for the journey and stored all the Buddhist relics in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}