{"id":9,"date":"2025-11-28T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:46:47","slug":"bookstore-inside-326-meter-sinkhole-becomes-viral-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/bookstore-inside-326-meter-sinkhole-becomes-viral-landmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore inside 326-meter sinkhole becomes viral landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cliffside bookstore in the walls of a 326-meter-deep sinkhole in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is drawing widespread attention for its dramatic setting and unusual reading experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After opening in May inside the Mianhua Tiankeng Scenic Area, the bookstore quickly became a landmark. At night, lights illuminate more than 10,000 books arranged along the cliff, creating what operators call a &#8220;knowledge canyon&#8221;. Visitors must descend over 1,000 plank-road steps to reach it. -China Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cliffside bookstore in the walls of a 326-meter-deep sinkhole in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is drawing widespread attention for its dramatic setting and unusual reading experience. After opening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/bookstore-inside-326-meter-sinkhole-becomes-viral-landmark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegriptt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}