{"id":2653,"date":"2014-04-11T05:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2015-05-31T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T03:49:09","slug":"sun-and-chiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/sun-and-chiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun and Chiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our visit to Taipei we learned some about the nation&#8217;s primary forefathers, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. Sun was the intellectual leader of the movement to end imperial rule in China and is revered by both Taiwanese and mainland Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Chiang was Sun Yat-sen&#8217;s successor and the first president of Taiwan after it split from mainland China in dispute with the communists. Chiang was president until his death in 1975. Chiang&#8217;s legacy gets mixed reviews in today&#8217;s Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, here&#8217;s what we saw when we visited each man&#8217;s memorial in Taipei.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cycle_imgs_box\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/sun-and-chiang\/#startshow\"><div class=\"cycle_imgs\"><div class='cycle_img_div' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/taipei-16-150x150.jpg\" class=\"cycle_img\"><\/img><\/div><div class='cycle_img_div'  style=\"display:none\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/taipei-17-150x150.jpg\" class=\"cycle_img\"><\/img><\/div><div class='cycle_img_div'  style=\"display:none\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/taipei-18-150x150.jpg\" class=\"cycle_img\"><\/img><\/div><div class='cycle_img_div'  style=\"display:none\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/taipei-19-150x150.jpg\" class=\"cycle_img\"><\/img><\/div><div class='cycle_img_div'  style=\"display:none\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/taipei-14-150x150.jpg\" class=\"cycle_img\"><\/img><\/div><\/div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/kimandtodd-photo-tools\/images\/slides.gif\" class=\"cycle_overlay\"><\/img><\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our visit to Taipei we learned some about the nation&#8217;s primary forefathers, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. Sun was the intellectual leader of the movement to end imperial rule&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4884,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}