{"id":4163,"date":"2019-02-24T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:23:44","slug":"hoi-an-walkabout-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=4163","title":{"rendered":"Hoi An, Walkabout Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hoi An in Central Vietnam &#8211; a place of transforming light, colour and peace.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Girl-with-bike-Vietnam-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Girl-with-bike-Vietnam-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Girl-with-bike-Vietnam-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Girl-with-bike-Vietnam-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In October 2019 I travelled to Hoi An in Central Vietnam for a short stay. A time to find some peace and relaxation, time to off load a little. My own cycling adventures in Hoi An were not so overloaded as the girl with the bike, but somehow she reminded me of myself&#8230; valiantly carrying with a smile on her face.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese people are very peaceful, determined and friendly. Couldn&#8217;t resist the lady offering boat rides for \u00a32.oo.<\/p>\n<p>It has taken me a little while but I have included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?page_id=4148\">Faith Goes Walkabout<\/a> sections with a new style presentation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Boat-ride-lady-HOi-An-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Boat-ride-lady-HOi-An-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Boat-ride-lady-HOi-An-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Boat-ride-lady-HOi-An-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/vietnam\/central-vietnam\">Central Vietnam<\/a> is a great place to visit if you have the chance.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoi An in Central Vietnam &#8211; a place of transforming light, colour and peace. In October 2019 I travelled to Hoi An in Central Vietnam for a short stay. A time to find some peace and relaxation, time to off load a little. My own cycling adventures in Hoi An were not so overloaded as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52,159],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-goes-walkabout","tag-faith-goes-walkabout-2","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}