{"id":73,"date":"2026-09-23T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/feeding-the-temple-fish-is-basically-a-blood-sport\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:19:16","slug":"feeding-the-temple-fish-is-basically-a-blood-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/feeding-the-temple-fish-is-basically-a-blood-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the temple fish is basically a blood sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every temple pond has the same d\u00e9cor &#8211; a plastic dinosaur, half a rubber duck, and a handful of coins that instantly became fish real estate. You buy the little cup of food expecting something calm and spiritual. Wrong. The second it hits the water it&#8217;s absolute carnage &#8211; fins flying, tourists gasping, one koi built like a front rower shouldering the rest out of the way. By your third handful you&#8217;ve picked a favourite and you&#8217;re basically coaching him from the sidelines. Turns out the most honest wildlife you&#8217;ll see anywhere is a fish that&#8217;s just been fed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-a9a5652c-dd26-41d2-9933-ad61a17d3ad6.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding the temple fish is basically a blood sport\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-1897a717-5ae0-4f30-a09b-ca510d7d4a7b.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding the temple fish is basically a blood sport\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-206808dd-6dd4-4c3e-a484-ed2655f0acbc.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding the temple fish is basically a blood sport\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-df0646a4-1293-4f2c-84e0-f7e1a7466ae9.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding the temple fish is basically a blood sport\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every temple pond has the same d\u00e9cor &#8211; a plastic dinosaur, half a rubber duck, and a handful of coins that instantly became fish real estate. You buy the little cup of food expecti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}