{"id":1934,"date":"2014-03-05T04:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2014-03-05T04:30:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T04:30:47","slug":"the-tiger-balm-guy-builds-some-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"The Tiger Balm Guy Builds Some Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haw_Par_Villa\">place<\/a> was built as sort of an philanthropist\/educational\/religious wonderland 80 or so years ago.  In the 80&#8217;s the Singapore government tried to redevelop it as a theme park, but it rapidly went bust.  Now the ruins are open to the public &#8212; the plaques are mostly too weathered to read, so many of these sculptures and dioramas and such are presented without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>It might be that if I were more versed in Chinese folklore there would&#8217;ve been stories around every corner, but as it is I must present these photos without comment.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1934 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1935'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1936'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1937'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1938'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1939'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1940'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1941'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar7-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1942'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar8-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1943'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HawPar9-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This place was built as sort of an philanthropist\/educational\/religious wonderland 80 or so years ago. In the 80&#8217;s the Singapore government tried to redevelop it as a theme park, but it rapidly went bust. Now the ruins are open to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1934\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}