{"id":15607,"date":"2020-03-09T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/09\/gratitude-education-wuhan-boss-faces-backlash-over-calls-to-thank-leaders"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:52:21","slug":"gratitude-education-wuhan-boss-faces-backlash-over-calls-to-thank-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15607","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gratitude education&#8217;: Wuhan boss faces backlash over calls to thank leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s top official scorned for saying citizens should thank President Xi and communist party for coronavirus management<\/p>\n<p>Wuhan\u2019s top party official has come under fire after saying the government would implement \u201cgratitude education\u201d so citizens can properly thank the Chinese Communist party for its efforts fighting the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>In comments published on Saturday, Wuhan party secretary Wang Zhonglin said: \u201cThe people of Wuhan are heroic people who understand gratitude,\u201d echoing previous comments by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/09\/gratitude-education-wuhan-boss-faces-backlash-over-calls-to-thank-leaders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s top official scorned for saying citizens should thank President Xi and communist party for coronavirus managementWuhan\u2019s top party official has come under fire after saying the government would implement \u201cgratitude education\u201d so citizens can pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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":[41,50,1069,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15608,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607\/revisions\/15608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}