{"id":23554,"date":"2020-10-08T00:17:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/stolen-mao-scroll-worth-230m-was-cut-in-two-by-50-buyer-police-say"},"modified":"2020-10-08T00:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:17:06","slug":"stolen-mao-scroll-worth-230m-was-cut-in-two-by-50-buyer-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23554","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Mao scroll worth \u00a3230m was cut in two by \u00a350 buyer, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police say person who bought scroll thought it was a fake and too long to display<\/p>\n<p>A calligraphy scroll by China\u2019s former leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mao-zedong\">Mao Zedong<\/a>, estimated to be worth millions, was cut in half after it was stolen last month in Hong Kong, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The scroll was found damaged when police arrested a 49-year-old man in late September on suspicion of handling stolen property. The South China Morning Post, quoting an unidentified police source, reported that the scroll was cut in two by a buyer who had purchased it for 500 Hong Kong dollars (about \u00a350) and believed the scroll to be counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/stolen-mao-scroll-worth-230m-was-cut-in-two-by-50-buyer-police-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police say person who bought scroll thought it was a fake and too long to displayA calligraphy scroll by China\u2019s former leader Mao Zedong, estimated to be worth millions, was cut in half after it was stolen last month in Hong Kong, police hav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"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":[41,50,48,695,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-mao-zedong","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\/23554","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\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions\/23555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}