{"id":22968,"date":"2017-01-19T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22968"},"modified":"2017-02-12T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T02:23:59","slug":"%e3%80%8achinese-tales-for-everyone-myths-and-legends_9-%e4%b8%83%e5%a4%95%e3%80%8b__-kong-shiu-loon-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22968","title":{"rendered":"\u300aChinese Tales for Everyone: Myths and Legends_9-\u4e03\u5915\u300b__ Kong Shiu Loon (53)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/2375-chinese-tales-for-everyone-mayths-and-legends-9-kong-shiu-loon-53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22970\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Double7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;..<br \/>\nOn that date, she summoned all the magpies on earth to fly to the celestial river to form a bridge for the couple to meet. There, the parents and children would have a time together. They shed tears as they expressed their longings for one another, and their wish to be united again.<br \/>\nOn earth, the Chinese, later also the Japanese, had since celebrated the <b>Double Seven Festival<\/b> (\u4e03\u5915) to remember the tragic event. At night, people would search the sky for the Celestial River, known as the Milky Way, and point to two bright stars with blinking eyes&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Click the image to read the tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.. On that date, she summoned all the magpies on earth to fly to the celestial river to form a bridge for the couple to meet. There, the parents and children would have a time together. They shed tears as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22968\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-22968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-tales","tag-sl-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22971,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions\/22971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}