{"id":29083,"date":"2017-10-03T23:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29083"},"modified":"2017-10-03T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T23:46:47","slug":"cheng-ho-the-famous-chinese-eunuch-admiral-explorer-of-the-15th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/10\/cheng-ho-the-famous-chinese-eunuch-admiral-explorer-of-the-15th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheng Ho:  The Famous Chinese Eunuch Admiral-Explorer of the 15th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before\u00a0Christopher Columbus\u00a0sailed the ocean blue in search of a water route to Asia, the Chinese were exploring the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific with seven voyages of the &#8220;Treasure Fleet&#8221; that solidified Chinese control over much of Asia in the 15th century.\u00a0The Treasure Fleets\u00a0were commanded by a powerful eunuch admiral named Cheng Ho. Cheng Ho was born around 1371 in China&#8217;s southwestern Yunan Province (just north of Laos) with the name Ma Ho. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/cheng-ho-biography-1435009\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before\u00a0Christopher Columbus\u00a0sailed the ocean blue in search of a water route to Asia, the Chinese were exploring the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific with seven voyages of the &#8220;Treasure Fleet&#8221; that solidified Chinese control over much of Asia in the 15th century.\u00a0The Treasure Fleets\u00a0were commanded by a powerful eunuch admiral named Cheng Ho. Cheng Ho was born around 1371 in China&#8217;s southwestern Yunan Province (just north of Laos) with the name Ma Ho. Read more &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29095,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083\/revisions\/29095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}