{"id":1020,"date":"2013-06-17T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:43:23","slug":"the-great-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/17\/the-great-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/17\/the-great-wall\/img_0378\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1028\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0378-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0378-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0378-750x562.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1020 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/17\/the-great-wall\/img_0433\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0433-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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src=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0390-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Great Wall absolutely lived up to its name. It was the most gorgeous piece of work I have ever seen. The history, the beauty, and the spirit of China were all surrounding the entire wall. Our tour guide told us, \u201cYou are a hero in China if you climb the Great Wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was beaming the entire climb. It was a difficult climb and it took me back to the fond memory of Mt. Tai. I climbed the wall with Will and stopped for many pictures along the way. It was so incredible just to be there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I met so many great people along the way. I met a sweet older couple and a young girl and her brother. There were people from all over the world making the great journey at the Great Wall. It is a beautiful memory forever burned in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My money issue made it difficult to buy a shirt, but I just had to have a shirt that said \u201cI climbed the Great Wall\u201d with the Wall as the background. Will lent me the money, and after several arguments with a Chinese lady, I got the shirt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I climbed the Great Wall. I was a hero that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Wall absolutely lived up to its name. It was the most gorgeous piece of work I have ever seen. The history, the beauty, and the spirit of China were all surrounding the entire wall. Our tour guide told us, \u201cYou are a hero in China if you climb the Great Wall.\u201d &nbsp; I was beaming the entire climb. It was a difficult climb and it took me back to the fond memory of Mt. Tai. I climbed the wall with Will and stopped for many pictures along the way. It was so incredible just to be there. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/17\/the-great-wall\/\"> &#8230; \/\/ <b>Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89,64,157,66,111,74,81,112,25,52,113,57],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-adventure","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-great-wall","tag-language","tag-people","tag-places","tag-students","tag-study-abroad","tag-teachers","tag-una"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/IMG_0430.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}