{"id":2879,"date":"2014-04-27T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2014-04-27T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T15:59:06","slug":"lantau-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/lantau-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Lantau Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as Kim found out there was a giant Buddha on the outskirts of Hong Kong we made plans to visit, as oversize religious statues are a staple of world travel. The Buddha is on a hill on formerly remote Lantau Island west of central Hong Kong. The island is now home to the city&#8217;s large airport and is connected via rail and road. There&#8217;s also a tram from the metro station to the shopping center that&#8217;s a short walk from the Buddha and and the Po Lin temple.<\/p>\n<p>We rode the tram out and walked back in. Here&#8217;s what we saw on our day on Lantau Island.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cycle_imgs_box\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/lantau-island\/#startshow\"><div class=\"cycle_imgs\"><div class='cycle_img_div' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lantau-1-150x150.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\/lantau-2-150x150.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\/lantau-3-150x150.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\/lantau-4-150x150.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\/lantau-5-150x150.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>As soon as Kim found out there was a giant Buddha on the outskirts of Hong Kong we made plans to visit, as oversize religious statues are a staple of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}