{"id":2469,"date":"2007-06-15T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:39","slug":"threetwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2469","title":{"rendered":"Three&#8230;Two&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/RnLyMQcfXSI\/AAAAAAAAAA0\/26f-hYlOydo\/s1600-h\/sbbt_monkey_ad.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/sbbt_monkey_ad.jpg\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><br \/>(Don&#8217;t forget to click to enlarge our &#8220;poster!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Probably one of the most common characters in Eastern mythology, the Monkey King was mostly just another cloudy tale of an animal god before I encountered him in  <a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/learning-your-abcs.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Born Chinese<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monkey_King\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> helpfully names him, in the traditional Chinese, as \u5b6b\u609f\u7a7a; in simplified Chinese as \u5b59\u609f\u7a7a; (okay, still not &#8220;simplified&#8221; to me!), in Hanyu Pinyin as S\u016bn W\u00f9k\u014dng, and he is also referenced in Wade-Giles as Sun Wu-k&#8217;ung.  He is always playful, always boastful, always tricky, and eventually, always wise. It&#8217;s a great combination.<\/p>\n<p>Many readers of ABC found that they wanted more of the Monkey King, having big love for that stubborn manlike mammal. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.powells.com\/s?kw=the+monkey+king&#038;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">there are hundreds<\/a> of Monkey King tales. Go forth and read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!(Don&#8217;t forget to click to enlarge our &#8220;poster!&#8221;) Probably one of the most common characters in Eastern mythology, the Monkey King&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,10],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-news","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}