{"id":10371,"date":"2014-10-31T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=10371"},"modified":"2014-10-31T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T05:22:56","slug":"sunset-pagodas-of-bagan-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/sunset-pagodas-of-bagan-myanmar.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunset over the pagodas of Bagan, Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todays&#8217;s photo &#8211;\u00a0when weather gods smiled over the pagodas of Bagan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bagan-sunset-shwesandaw-pagoda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10372\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bagan-sunset-shwesandaw-pagoda.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset from Shwesandaw Pagoda, Bagan, Myanmar\" width=\"900\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bagan-sunset-shwesandaw-pagoda.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bagan-sunset-shwesandaw-pagoda-640x418.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, Bagan in Central Myanmar was the original capital of Myanmar Kings. In the days of glory, which started nearly a millennium ago, a slew of pagods were built along the plains of Bagan overlooking the Ayeyar River. About 2000 pagodas have survived the march of time, forming what looks like a miniature mountain-range raising from the otherwise prostrate\u00a0landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since Myanmar opened up for visitors, Bagan has been one of the prime attractions, something like a crown jewel. It&#8217;s possible to climb over a few\u00a0of these Pagodas, and Shwesandaw is the among taller and popular ones.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph was made on a glorious October evening as the sun splattered his orange blaze over the pagodas, even as the eastern sky danced to a tune of the clouds. As you can guess, Shwesandaw&#8217;s shadow is right in front, giving a hint of its elevation against its\u00a0smaller counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todays&#8217;s photo &#8211;\u00a0when weather gods smiled over the pagodas of Bagan&#8230; For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, Bagan in Central Myanmar was the original capital of Myanmar Kings. In the days of glory, which started nearly a millennium ago, a slew of pagods were built along the plains of Bagan overlooking the Ayeyar River. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[409,157],"tags":[456,434,158,457,458],"class_list":["post-10371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-photos","tag-bagan","tag-pagoda","tag-photo","tag-shwesandaw","tag-sunset"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-2Hh","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}