{"id":13302,"date":"2020-01-28T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/28\/indoor-fishing-and-chanting-battles-how-chinas-quarantined-millions-are-keeping-busy"},"modified":"2020-01-28T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:59:20","slug":"indoor-fishing-and-chanting-battles-how-chinas-quarantined-millions-are-keeping-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13302","title":{"rendered":"Indoor fishing and chanting battles: how China&#8217;s quarantined millions are keeping busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck inside for more than a week, Wuhan residents have turned to lion dances, indoor quoits and &#8230; other activities<\/p>\n<p>Whether locked down in quarantined cities in the outbreak zone of Hubei or isolating themselves at home across the country to lessen the chance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/27\/china-coronavirus-who-to-hold-special-meeting-in-beijing-as-death-toll-jumps\">coronavirus infection,<\/a> Chinese people have been coming up with creative ways to keep boredom at bay.<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s social media sites are abuzz with innovative ways to keep spirits up, from impromptu <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manyapan\/status\/1221797459355164672?s=20\">lion dances<\/a> \u2013 using plastic stools for the head and blankets for the costume \u2013 to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyuju32810\/status\/1221819855231315968?s=20\">chanting battles <\/a>between high-rise residential blocks,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manyapan\/status\/1221797556457439232?s=20\"> indoor quoits and fishing in fishtanks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/28\/indoor-fishing-and-chanting-battles-how-chinas-quarantined-millions-are-keeping-busy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck inside for more than a week, Wuhan residents have turned to lion dances, indoor quoits and &#8230; other activitiesWhether locked down in quarantined cities in the outbreak zone of Hubei or isolating themselves at home across the country to lessen th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13311,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions\/13311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}