{"id":4077,"date":"2010-01-03T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2010-01-01T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T06:34:30","slug":"more-from-wat-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/more-from-wat-po\/","title":{"rendered":"More from Wat Po"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152553trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152553trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"case family at wat po temple pho bangkok thailand\" title=\"case family at wat po temple pho bangkok thailand\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152553trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152553trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152553trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was more to Wat Pho than the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/wat-po-or-pho-the-reclining-buddha\/>Reclining Buddha<\/a>. We didn&#8217;t have time to see it all since we still wanted to see the Emerald Buddha and Grand Palace before everything closed in a few hours. But there were many Thai-style buildings, Buddhas, and interesting grounds to explore at Wat Pho.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152917trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152917trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"wat po buildings bangkok thailand buddhist\" title=\"wat po buildings bangkok thailand buddhist\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152917trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152917trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152917trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The air was surprisingly clear for (I&#8217;m guessing normally smoggy) Bangkok. I like the way the gold edge on this building caught the sun with the blue sky background. (You can click on it for a much larger view.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21153043trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21153043trim-417x800.jpg\" alt=\"gold buddha desciples wat pho bangkok thailand\" title=\"gold buddha disciples wat pho bangkok thailand\" width=\"417\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21153043trim-417x800.jpg 417w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21153043trim-130x250.jpg 130w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21153043trim.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above Buddha statue is different than any I have seen before in that he has disciple statues facing him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152320trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152320trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"wat po blue skies fluffy clouds\" title=\"wat po blue skies fluffy clouds\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152320trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152320trim-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21152320trim.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only were the skies blue, but they had some of my favorite kind of clouds added to the mix as well. I couldn&#8217;t have asked for more picture-perfect scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was more to Wat Pho than the Reclining Buddha. We didn&#8217;t have time to see it all since we still wanted to see the Emerald Buddha and Grand Palace before everything closed in a few hours. But there were many Thai-style buildings, Buddhas, and interesting grounds to explore at Wat Pho. The air was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243],"tags":[245,101,130,176,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}