{"id":369,"date":"2008-11-08T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/11\/a-peak-at-a-buddhist-temple\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T01:51:30","slug":"a-peak-at-a-buddhist-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/11\/a-peak-at-a-buddhist-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peak at a Buddhist Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One afternoon after a long bus ride to and tour of the ancient water township of Zhouzhang, the driver said he had time to stop and show us one more ancient historic site.&#160; Surprise!&#160; It turned out to be a Buddhist Temple complete with monks and people offering incense to idols.&#160; Since the whole visit was conducted in Mandarin, we blessedly didn&#8217;t understand a word but we surreptitiously stood in the background and observed some of the goings-on.&#160; Later in the bus on the way back to our hotel, we listened to our friends explain what had gone on behind the scenes that we opted out of.&#160; It turned out to be a divine opportunity to share our faith all the way back to Suzhou.&#160; And because they realized, after the fact, that they had actually been scammed and pressured into purchasing very expensive incense to wave before the Buddha idol to bring their family &quot;luck&quot;, they were really interested in hearing about Christianity.&#160; We opened our mouths and the Holy Spirit filled us with words just for them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020923\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020923-thumb.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020930.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020930\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020930-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One afternoon after a long bus ride to and tour of the ancient water township of Zhouzhang, the driver said he had time to stop and show us one more ancient historic site.&#160; Surprise!&#160; It turned out to be a Buddhist Temple complete with monks and people offering incense to idols.&#160; Since the whole visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}