{"id":236,"date":"2007-07-31T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T01:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-07-31T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T02:30:29","slug":"shrines-at-lawai-international-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Shrines at Lawai International Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday we went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawaicenter.org\/pages\/home.html\">Lawai International Center<\/a>. Early Japanese immigrants created 88 buddhist shrines on a steep slope, and recently the Lawai International Center restored the sacred space. Shrines like  this are very rare outside of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The place was site of the Hawaiian heiau, a Taoist temple, a Shinto shrine, and a Buddhist temple. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/shrines-overview.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/web\/shrines-overview.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leilani called the shrines Buddha houses, and peeked into most of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/20m-peeking-in-shrine.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/web\/20m-peeking-in-shrine.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/20m-looking-at-shrine.jpgg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/web\/20m-looking-at-shrine.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/3-shrines.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/web\/3-shrines.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/shrine-w-budha.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/web\/shrine-w-budha.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/20m-sniffing-buddhas-flowers.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/web\/20m-sniffing-buddhas-flower.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/20m-leilani-sonja-shrines.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/20m\/web\/20m-leilani-sonja-shrines.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday we went to the Lawai International Center. Early Japanese immigrants created 88 buddhist shrines on a steep slope, and recently the Lawai International Center restored the sacred space. Shrines like this are very rare outside of Japan. The place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}