{"id":171,"date":"2004-12-20T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2006-01-29T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T07:24:13","slug":"china-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"China images &#8211; Forbidden City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you asked for more images and here they are &#8211; these ones are of the Forbidden City. If you have seen the movie &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221; you will have seen at least some of these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/forbiddencity1.jpg' alt='Forbidden City, Beijing' \/><br \/>\nThe mist made modern Beijing disappear as though it were not quite real<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/forbiddencity2.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nOne of the hidden corridors<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/forbiddencity3.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nThe Starbucks coffee shop is quite discrete&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Forbiddencity4.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the details that count &#8211; these scenes are painted delicately and high in the rafters &#8211; they are slowly being painted over in the &#8216;restoration&#8217; effort &#8211; so catch them while you can!<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Forbiddencity5.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nHere is one of the magnificent ceilings<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Forbiddencity6.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nAnother fabulous ceiling in the Forbidden City<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Forbiddencity7.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nThis woman was sweeping despite the fog and the lack of leaves or rubbish &#8211; unseen by most who passed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Forbiddencity8.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nThe terraces were bounded by beautifully carved walls and drained by fabulous gargoyles<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Forbiddencity10.jpg' alt='Forbidden City Beijing' \/><br \/>\nA small corner in the greater scheme of things<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll add more on other parts of our visit soon<\/p>\n<p>cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you asked for more images and here they are &#8211; these ones are of the Forbidden City. If you have seen the movie &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221; you will have seen at least some of these&#8230; The mist made modern Beijing disappear as though it were not quite real One of the hidden corridors The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journal","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}