{"id":25059,"date":"2020-11-24T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/24\/uk-diplomat-who-saved-chinese-woman-given-traditional-banner"},"modified":"2020-11-24T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:39:43","slug":"uk-diplomat-who-saved-chinese-woman-given-traditional-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25059","title":{"rendered":"UK diplomat who saved Chinese woman given traditional banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chongqing consul-general Stephen Ellison jumped into river to save university student<\/p>\n<p>A British diplomat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/16\/british-diplomat-leaps-into-river-to-save-drowning-woman-in-china\">who rescued a Chinese woman from a river<\/a> earlier this month has been presented with a red velvet banner as a way of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Ellison, the consul-general in Chongqing, was hailed as a hero after footage went viral of him jumping into a river to save a 24-year-old university student. The woman had slipped on rocks and fallen in, and video shot by bystanders showed her struggling in the water before passing under a bridge and emerging facedown. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/24\/uk-diplomat-who-saved-chinese-woman-given-traditional-banner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chongqing consul-general Stephen Ellison jumped into river to save university studentA British diplomat who rescued a Chinese woman from a river earlier this month has been presented with a red velvet banner as a way of thanks.Stephen Ellison, the cons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[50,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uk-news","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\/25059","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions\/25060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}