{"id":166,"date":"2006-08-10T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-08-10T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T05:40:50","slug":"thunder-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/166","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan, which is the English butchering of the proper name for the country, means Thunder Dragon in the local dialect.  Embarrassingly, I&#8217;ve never thought to ask why.  The answer was evident last night when a rumble of thunder lasted close to twenty seconds.  Marie explained that it was echoing off the surrounding mountains and, though I&#8217;d never noticed before, it was quite common.  It was all too easy to imagine that an enormous dragon lurked in the higher mountains and was upset at the monsoon rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan, which is the English butchering of the proper name for the country, means Thunder Dragon in the local dialect. Embarrassingly, I&#8217;ve never thought to ask why. The answer was evident last night when a rumble of thunder lasted close to twenty seconds. Marie explained that it was echoing off the surrounding mountains and, though&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/166\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thunder Dragon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}