{"id":402,"date":"2008-03-18T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T22:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=402"},"modified":"2008-03-16T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T22:58:07","slug":"dispatch-15-%e2%80%93-shanghai-people%e2%80%99s-republic-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch #15 \u2013 Shanghai, People\u2019s Republic of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/watchingyouflag.jpg\" alt=\"watchingyouflag.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>State Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is more of a rant than a travel dispatch. I will most likely post my China dispatches upon my return to the states for fear of \u201churting the feelings of the Chinese people\u201d as government officials like to refer to expressions of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers beware censorship and surveillance is very REAL in China just like the old cold war era movies. Make no mistake about it the state CONTROLS people\u2019s very existence here including foreigners. Don\u2019t be fooled by the Disneyfication of Shanghai and Beijing\u2014repression reigns.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to get the hell out of here! The contradictions, corruption and repression are just too much for this Cali sistah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/watchingyouflag2.jpg\" alt=\"watchingyouflag2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Control This is more of a rant than a travel dispatch. I will most likely post my China dispatches upon my return to the states for fear of \u201churting the feelings of the Chinese people\u201d as government officials like to refer to expressions of free speech. Travelers beware censorship and surveillance is very REAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dispatches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c8Xx-6u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}