{"id":198,"date":"2014-08-25T22:54:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T22:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/?p=198"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:16:21","slug":"pandas-in-xian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/2014\/08\/25\/pandas-in-xian\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandas in Xi&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/08\/panda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/08\/panda-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"panda\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/08\/panda-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/08\/panda.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Michaela Willer shared part of her experience working abroad in China on her blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The shelter\u00a0had been commended for their work on\u00a0the Crested Ibis. The guide told me there were only 7 Crested Ibis in the world back in the 1980&#8217;s and the center we were at was responsible for helping them stave off extinction. There are now thousands in the world. Apparently it is easier to breed birds than bears.<\/p>\n<p>We also saw golden takin, silk deer \u2014\u00a0who are hunted for their antlers which are used as traditional medicine, black bears that they called moon bears,\u00a0 Sibuxiang \u2014\u00a0a chinese animal that is a mix between a horse, donkey and goat \u2014\u00a0and golden monkeys. There were also vultures, eagles, an owl, an\u00a0 eagle and a peacock.<\/p>\n<p>It was really cool to see all the animals and it was better yet because there were barely any people there. Most people go to Chengdu to see Pandas so\u00a0this place isn\u2019t very well known. It was 30 years old though and you could tell. It wasn\u2019t necessarily in a state of disrepair, but it needed a little loving.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am in the middle of my flight from Xi\u2019an to Guilin. It is only an hour and a half versus the 20 hour or so train ride that it would have been otherwise. The warriors were definitely worth the time spent in the train and the Muslim Quarter was great. I am really excited for Guilin, maybe we might even get fresh air there.<\/p>\n<div><em>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mjwiller.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/mjwiller.wordpress.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaela Willer, Class of 2013, wrote about a visit to a panda shelter while she was teaching English at a school in Weifang, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}