{"id":5410,"date":"2010-05-04T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2010-08-29T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:18:35","slug":"kung-fu-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/kung-fu-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kung Fu Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1110676trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1110676trim-800x425.jpg\" alt=\"kung fu moves action photography\" title=\"\u5c11\u6797\u5bfa shaolin temple monastery\" width=\"800\" height=\"425\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1110676trim-800x425.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1110676trim-250x132.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1110676trim.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my visit to <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/shaolin-temple\/>Shaolin Temple<\/a> in China last month, I had the chance to watch a Kung Fu performance since the Shaolin Temple is known as the birthplace of the martial art. The performance was really cool at times.<\/p>\n<p>However, much of it was really cheesy and touristy, which cheapened the whole experience. For instance, the show would be stopped at times to try to get people in the crowd to buy things or pay for pictures with a Shaolin Monk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1110682trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1110682trim.jpg\" alt=\"balance on finger shaolin monastery zhengzhou china\" title=\"kung fu master does handstand on fingers only\" width=\"422\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This guy did a handstand on four fingers. I guess that would be called a fingerstand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1110657trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1110657trim-800x483.jpg\" alt=\"chinese buddhist monks strike a pose\" title=\"kung fu demonstration at shaolin temple henan province china\" width=\"800\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1110657trim-800x483.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1110657trim-250x151.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1110657trim.jpg 1324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my visit to Shaolin Temple in China last month, I had the chance to watch a Kung Fu performance since the Shaolin Temple is known as the birthplace of the martial art. The performance was really cool at times. However, much of it was really cheesy and touristy, which cheapened the whole experience. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262],"tags":[268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410"}],"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=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}