{"id":10456,"date":"2014-11-19T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T06:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T06:24:12","slug":"myanmar-monk-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/myanmar-monk-monastery.html","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere in Myanmar&#8230; A Monk and the Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/myanmar-monk-monastery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/myanmar-monk-monastery.jpg\" alt=\"Myanmar - Monk and Monastery\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/myanmar-monk-monastery.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/myanmar-monk-monastery-640x426.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was 6 weeks ago, when were wandering in a small village in the periphery of Inle Lake. It was as idyllic as a rural setup could get. There was a stream flowing by. Paddy fields dominated the landscape with their lush-green colour. The vista of the landscape ended in distant hills decorated by rain bearing clouds. Water buffaloes wandered the open fields, grazing quietly. Sun shined occasionally through the clouds. Row-boats passed through the stream once-in-a-while. Children frolicked by the house-verandas and on the streets. Life moved slowly, gently and unassumingly. <\/p>\n<p>I was lost in this happiness and had completely ignored this monastery, and the monk who stood by the window, watching the same spectacle as I did. I turned around in a moment of unawareness, and suddenly awakened by the beauty of the place. Camera shutter released in an instant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 6 weeks ago, when were wandering in a small village in the periphery of Inle Lake. It was as idyllic as a rural setup could get. There was a stream flowing by. Paddy fields dominated the landscape with their lush-green colour. The vista of the landscape ended in distant hills decorated by rain [&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":[177,182,436,556,158],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-photos","tag-buddhism","tag-monastery","tag-monk","tag-myanmar","tag-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-2IE","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","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=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10458,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions\/10458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}