{"id":487,"date":"2008-10-30T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2008-12-10T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T19:44:02","slug":"a-chinese-classical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/10\/a-chinese-classical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese Classical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Humble Administrator&#8217;s Garden<\/strong>, built during the 16th century, is a really pretty park, and is the largest of all the famous &#8220;gardens&#8221; in Suzhou.\u00a0 The four main elements of a classical garden are: rocks, water, architecture, and plants. The Chinese have a saying about &#8220;classical&#8221; gardens: one step, one scene.\u00a0 The garden is so well planned and laid out that every time you take a step, the scene changes. We spent three or four hours walking and climbing everywhere and snapping hundreds of pictures.\u00a0 Even on that foggy, drizzly day, it was absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020442.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020442-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020442\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020496.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020496-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020496\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020549-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020549\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020568-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020568\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/p1020580-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020580\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Humble Administrator&#8217;s Garden, built during the 16th century, is a really pretty park, and is the largest of all the famous &#8220;gardens&#8221; in Suzhou.\u00a0 The four main elements of a classical garden are: rocks, water, architecture, and plants. The Chinese have a saying about &#8220;classical&#8221; gardens: one step, one scene.\u00a0 The garden is so [&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-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}