{"id":1761,"date":"2007-09-25T08:22:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T08:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/25\/nondorky-poll-giant-buddha-sma\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T08:22:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T08:22:59","slug":"nondorky-poll-giant-buddha-sma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/25\/nondorky-poll-giant-buddha-sma\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Dorky Poll: Giant Buddha Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple question: We have the Great Buddha at Nara:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-cb488486f1432549c370bb6c9f50431a-sm_great_buddha_nara.jpg\" alt=\"i-cb488486f1432549c370bb6c9f50431a-sm_great_buddha_nara.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the Great Buddha at Kamakura:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2d5f6da629d392b66408682f700ce7bf-sm_great_buddha_kamakura.jpg\" alt=\"i-2d5f6da629d392b66408682f700ce7bf-sm_great_buddha_kamakura.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is better?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(Unfortunately, that&#8217;s the best picture I have of the Nara Daibutsu. The camera has a million different modes, selected by a clicky wheel on the top, and the wheel kept getting spun to odd settings as I put the camera in and out of the case. The other shots I took in Nara were all blurry, because it was on some low-light-level setting and took really long exposures.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple question: We have the Great Buddha at Nara: and the Great Buddha at Kamakura: Which is better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}