{"id":512,"date":"2009-11-25T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-11-25T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:29:52","slug":"wat-carolina-buddhist-temple-wilmington-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/25\/wat-carolina-buddhist-temple-wilmington-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Wat Carolina Buddhist Temple: Wilmington, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to visit the Wat Carolina Buddhajakra Vanaram, Boliva, NC (between Wilmington &#038; Southport, North Carolina).  It was an interesting opportunity for some photography and not something one would normally expect in North Carolina.  I&#8217;d like to visit again for additional photography in conjunction with one of their holidays\/celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><center> <img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/09_Nov_22_WatCarolina012.jpg\" alt=\"The shrine in the main temple building.\" \/>  <img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/09_Nov_22_WatCarolina020.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of two of the Buddha statues in the main temple near Wilmington, NC\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/09_Nov_22_WatCarolina050.jpg\" alt=\"The architecture is more what one would expect to see in Thailand or India rather than southern North Carolina.\" \/>  <img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/09_Nov_22_WatCarolina059.jpg\" alt=\"Another view of the Wat Carolina temple, about 2 hours north of Myrtle Beach, SC\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/09_Nov_22_WatCarolina062.jpg\" alt=\"The different roof levels are interesting: Buddhist Association of North Carolina\" \/>  <img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/09_Nov_22_WatCarolina069.jpg\" alt=\"Several statues of the Buddha featured on the shrine in the teaching area in the monk's quarters.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/09_Nov_22_WatCarolina070.jpg\" alt=\"A candle burns in front of the shrine.\" \/> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to visit the Wat Carolina Buddhajakra Vanaram, Boliva, NC (between Wilmington &#038; Southport, North Carolina). It was an interesting opportunity for some photography and not something one would normally expect in North Carolina. I&#8217;d like to visit again for additional photography in conjunction with one of their holidays\/celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}