{"id":1847,"date":"2007-01-18T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T16:37:09","slug":"a-chinese-bloggers-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese blogger&#8217;s victory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be a small thing really, but it is democracy in action: Starbucks is <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/china\/story\/0,,1993358,00.html\">set to be banned from the Forbidden City<\/a> after a huge web campaign. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trigger was a blog entry posted on Monday by Rui Chenggang, a TV anchorman, who called for a web campaign against the outlet that, he wrote in his blog, &#8220;tramples over over Chinese culture&#8221;.<br \/>\nAccording to local media, half a million people have signed his online petition and dozens of newspapers have carried prominent stories about the controversy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has been there, utterly incongruous in the midst of an otherwise nearly perfectly preserved historic site, for 16 years &#8211; I remember doing a double-take when I saw it there in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be a small thing really, but it is democracy in action: Starbucks is set to be banned from the Forbidden City after a huge web campaign. The trigger was a blog entry posted on Monday by Rui Chenggang, a TV anchorman, who called for a web campaign against the outlet that, he wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}