{"id":693,"date":"2013-01-13T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/01\/massive-snow-buddha-along-silk-road-route.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:11:36","slug":"massive-snow-buddha-along-silk-road-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/01\/massive-snow-buddha-along-silk-road-route.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive Snow Buddha Along Silk Road Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dXUKxb1NfTs\/UPLzlxVqhXI\/AAAAAAAAB8Y\/xfP1ixxe2NQ\/s1600\/snow%20buddha.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dXUKxb1NfTs\/UPLzlxVqhXI\/AAAAAAAAB8Y\/xfP1ixxe2NQ\/s320\/snow%20buddha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farwestchina.com\/2013\/01\/best-winter-silk-road-pictures-of-2012.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">massive snow Buddha <\/a>was made in Xinjiang earlier this winter. \u00a0Xinjiang is a city along the old Silk Road, in the northwest part of China. 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