{"id":21865,"date":"2020-08-20T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/20\/chinese-state-media-dismisses-attacks-on-wuhans-huge-pool-party-as-sour-grapes"},"modified":"2020-08-20T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:30:39","slug":"chinese-state-media-dismisses-attacks-on-wuhans-huge-pool-party-as-sour-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21865","title":{"rendered":"Chinese state media dismisses attacks on Wuhan&#8217;s huge pool party as &#8216;sour grapes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global Times says celebration in city where virus began showed strong coronavirus measures had \u2018paid off\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese state media has defended Wuhan residents after photos and video of a huge pool party went viral this week, saying complaints by foreigners were \u201csour grapes\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people celebrated at a water park music festival in Wuhan this week, crowded in front of the stage, shoulder to shoulder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/20\/chinese-state-media-dismisses-attacks-on-wuhans-huge-pool-party-as-sour-grapes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Times says celebration in city where virus began showed strong coronavirus measures had \u2018paid off\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese state media has defended Wuhan residents after photos and video of a huge pool &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,1069,914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21866,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions\/21866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}