{"id":42789,"date":"2022-03-23T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/23\/a-run-through-the-snow-pcr-tests-and-no-guests-a-wedding-in-chinas-covid-lockdown"},"modified":"2022-03-24T08:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T23:04:29","slug":"a-run-through-the-snow-pcr-tests-and-no-guests-a-wedding-in-chinas-covid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42789","title":{"rendered":"A run through the snow, PCR tests and no guests: a wedding in China\u2019s Covid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Liu Chang and Jia Shihan were due to get married on 19 March when Jia\u2019s apartment building was locked down \u2013 but they didn\u2019t let that stop them<\/p>\n<p>When Amanda Liu Chang and Jia Shihan grow old, they can tell their family members of the time they got married in the middle of a pandemic, Liu having to trudge with her wedding dress through the snow.<\/p>\n<p>The story began on 19 March when the couple awoke in their respective Tangshan city apartments in China\u2019s Hebei province, looking forward to formalising their three-year romance with family and friends. But unknown to them, authorities had locked down Jia\u2019s gated neighbourhood overnight, banning all residents from leaving, after some had tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/23\/a-run-through-the-snow-pcr-tests-and-no-guests-a-wedding-in-chinas-covid-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Liu Chang and Jia Shihan were due to get married on 19 March when Jia\u2019s apartment building was locked down \u2013 but they didn\u2019t let that stop themWhen Amanda Liu Chang and Jia Shihan grow old, they can tell their family members of the time they got&#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/42789","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=42789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789\/revisions\/42810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}