{"id":1962,"date":"2025-04-13T20:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/when-chinese-emperors-were-the-descendants-of-dragon\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T20:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:20:17","slug":"when-chinese-emperors-were-the-descendants-of-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-chinese-emperors-were-the-descendants-of-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"When Chinese Emperors Were the Descendants of Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was believed the legendary Chinese emperor Yandi was born from his mother\u2019s telepathic union with a dragon. Imagine if on some other interdimensional level that were true.<\/p>\n

Imagine if that were a common practice with mothers of future emperors in ancient China and dragons were real and true symbols of imperial power. <\/p>\n

Though grandiose, I like the idea of that. And I like Chinese dragons.<\/p>\n

I like that they are symbols of cosmic balance, luck, and protection. <\/p>\n

I like the unique and exotic way they look, and that they are thought to be celestial.<\/p>\n

Sure this is all mythological, but imagine if in some world, in some dimension, the claims and the stories about Chinese dragons were all true. <\/p>\n

I like the idea of that. Maybe you do too.<\/p>\n

Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was believed the legendary Chinese emperor Yandi was born from his mother\u2019s telepathic union with a dragon. Imagine if on some other interdimensional level that were true. Imagine if that were a common practice with mothers of future emperors in ancient China and dragons were real and true symbols of imperial power. Though grandiose,… Continue reading →<\/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:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}