{"id":1670,"date":"2013-12-29T18:56:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2013-12-29T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:56:56","slug":"haw-par-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Haw Par Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.cnn.com\/haw-par-villa-058341?iid=article_sidebar\">Haw Par Villa<\/a> (Singapore)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heather\u00a0<\/strong>suggests this bizarre attraction in Singapore. \u00a0From CNN: &#8220;Built in 1937\u00a0by\u00a0Burmese-Chinese brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par &#8212; best known for introducing the pain-relieving ointment Tiger Balm to the world &#8212; the\u00a0park has more than 1,000 statues and dioramas vividly depicting Chinese\u00a0folk tales, myths and Confucian beliefs&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0the brothers certainly achieved something unique. Nowhere else in the world will you see a diorama of a woman breastfeeding an old lady &#8212; one of the charming displays in Haw Par&#8217;s hellishly popular underworld section. \u00a0The graphic, sometimes downright terrifying\u00a0figures make the park a mutant mashup of\u00a0Gaudi\u2019s Parc G\u00fcell, in Barcelona, and a\u00a0Madame Tussauds wax museum.\u00a0Its intended purpose? To educate visitors in morality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds FANTASTIC!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haw Par Villa (Singapore) Heather\u00a0suggests this bizarre attraction in Singapore. \u00a0From CNN: &#8220;Built in 1937\u00a0by\u00a0Burmese-Chinese brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par &#8212; best known for introducing the pain-relieving ointment Tiger Balm to the world &#8212; the\u00a0park has more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore","tag-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}