{"id":13670,"date":"2020-02-04T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T07:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/from-gassy-passengers-to-viral-anthems-beijing-seeks-to-lighten-mood-amid-crisis"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T07:02:59","slug":"from-gassy-passengers-to-viral-anthems-beijing-seeks-to-lighten-mood-amid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13670","title":{"rendered":"From gassy passengers to viral anthems: Beijing seeks to lighten mood amid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media has sought to strike an upbeat or humorous tone as Xi Jinping calls for \u2018public opinion guidance\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/04\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-outbreak-death-toll-latest-news-update\">Coronavirus &#8211; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amid the tragic news of the coronavirus spreading in China, the state-run tabloid, the Global Times, has found space for a lighter look at the increasingly complicated lives of Chinese citizens in affected coronavirus areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t help farting?\u201d it asks. \u201cWell, better try harder because infrared temperature sensors recently installed in airports and train stations to monitor temperatures of passengers amid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hashtag_click\">#coronavirus<\/a> outbreak can screen them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/from-gassy-passengers-to-viral-anthems-beijing-seeks-to-lighten-mood-amid-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media has sought to strike an upbeat or humorous tone as Xi Jinping calls for \u2018public opinion guidance\u2019 Coronavirus &#8211; latest updatesAmid the tragic news of the coronavirus spreading in China, the state-run tabloid, the Global Times, has found spa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"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":[41,50,1069,914,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670","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\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13671,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions\/13671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}