{"id":126,"date":"2006-11-29T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2006\/11\/29\/guardian-lions\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T14:52:35","slug":"guardian-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2006\/11\/guardian-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEverywhere you go, a pair of lions guards the entrance of a respectable establishment, be it a temple, restaurant, government agency, bank, or simply a residential house.  The most common material is stone.  Some of them are made with iron or bronze.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/syw\/resource\/StoneLions.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"1104\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Stone Lions\"><\/div>\n<p>\nLions do not exist in China naturally.  Since there were no live examples, the ancient artists created the mythical <i>lions<\/i> to guard entrances.  They are mostly modeled after dogs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d more cute than fierce.<\/p>\n<p>The lions are not symmetrical.  Facing away at the door, the left-side should sit the male lion and the right-side female.  The female usually cuddles a puppy with her paw.  Some of the more creative ones have the puppies climbing all over her.  The male one, on the other side, typically plays with a ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere you go, a pair of lions guards the entrance of a respectable establishment, be it a temple, restaurant, government agency, bank, or simply a residential house. The most common material is stone. Some of them are made with iron &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2006\/11\/guardian-lions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}