{"id":963,"date":"2010-07-05T21:39:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2010-07-05T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:39:13","slug":"feeding-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/feeding-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding The Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/20100615_7D_0255.jpg?resize=754%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Feeding The Dragon\" width=\"754\" height=\"521\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nDuring our recent trip to China, we stopped by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qiandao_Lake\">Qiandao Lake (\u00e5\u008d\u0192\u00e5\u00b2\u203a\u00e6\u00b9\u2013)<\/a>, or literally, Thousand Island Lake on our way to Hangzhou (\u00e6\u009d\u00ad\u00e5\u00b7\u017e). The lake is actually a man-made one with 1,078 large islands and many smaller ones resulting from damming works to build the Xinanjiang hydroelectric station. Many of the islands are &#8220;touristy&#8221; types &#8212; with man-made &#8220;attractions&#8221; such as the above &#8220;Wishing Dragon&#8221; surrounded by people clamouring to feed it with coins for good luck. This is a close-up shot I caught with the details in the dragon boosted via post-processing in Lightroom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb20100615_7D_0255.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding The Dragon\" width=\"130\" height=\"89\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expression","category-travel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/przUn-fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}