{"id":1011,"date":"2014-03-05T02:04:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2014-03-05T02:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:04:31","slug":"angkor-wat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/05\/angkor-wat\/","title":{"rendered":"Angkor Wat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left my keyboard in Vietnam along with most of our luggage, so this will be short. <\/p>\n<p>We visited the ancient temple of Angkor Wat today, and I was more impressed than I expected to be. It is a huge temple complex covering many acres.  Visitors are allowed to wander around with few restrictions, able to view close up and touch the many detailed and beautiful bas relief carvings covering most of the walls. It was quite fascinating. <\/p>\n<p>Machu Picchu was impressive more for the setting than the ruins themselves, high in the rugged green Andes. Angkor Wat is much bigger, more detailed and much better preserved.  The jungle setting is also striking, but I could do without the accompanying sweltering heat.  At least it&#8217;s not the rainy season. <\/p>\n<p>There are several other similar ruins nearby, some of which we viewed today and will continue to explore tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left my keyboard in Vietnam along with most of our luggage, so this will be short. We visited the ancient temple of Angkor Wat today, and I was more impressed than I expected to be. It is a huge temple complex covering many acres. Visitors are allowed to wander around with few restrictions, able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}