{"id":53180,"date":"2023-03-07T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T02:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/how-a-rabbit-god-became-an-icon-for-taiwans-gay-community"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T02:57:12","slug":"how-a-rabbit-god-became-an-icon-for-taiwans-gay-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53180","title":{"rendered":"How a rabbit god became an icon for Taiwan\u2019s gay community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temple in Taipei is believed to be the only Taoist site set up to revere rabbit god Tu\u2019er Shen, a significant symbol for LGBTQI people in Taiwan and China<\/p>\n<p>During a quiet mid-week afternoon on the eighth floor of an office building, A-wei is meditatively separating flower petals to make an offering to Tu\u2019er Shen the rabbit god, a spiritual guardian of LGBTQI people.<\/p>\n<p>The small Taoist temple where 24-year-old A-wei sits is a humble room with views across New Taipei city, made cosy by the smell of incense and the mews of two noisy cats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/how-a-rabbit-god-became-an-icon-for-taiwans-gay-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temple in Taipei is believed to be the only Taoist site set up to revere rabbit god Tu\u2019er Shen, a significant symbol for LGBTQI people in Taiwan and ChinaDuring a quiet mid-week afternoon on the eighth floor of an office building, A-wei is meditatively&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2729,371,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-lgbtq-rights","category-religion","category-taiwan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53181,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53180\/revisions\/53181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}