{"id":43022,"date":"2022-03-30T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T05:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/pick-the-shelves-clean-food-shortage-rap-helps-cut-through-gloom-of-shanghai-lockdown"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T05:26:20","slug":"pick-the-shelves-clean-food-shortage-rap-helps-cut-through-gloom-of-shanghai-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43022","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pick the shelves clean\u2019: food shortage rap helps cut through gloom of Shanghai lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in China\u2019s largest city express growing frustration with Covid measures, as well as anger over food shortages<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Read all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A rap about food shortages has become a hit in Shanghai, with the artists behind the song describing it as an attempt to \u201ccheer up\u201d tens of millions of residents locked down in China\u2019s largest city amid a surging Covid outbreak and increasing restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The song, Grocery Shopping, laments empty shelves and fights in the supermarket aisles, and is set to footage of residents crowding around market stalls, or lining up for PCR tests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/pick-the-shelves-clean-food-shortage-rap-helps-cut-through-gloom-of-shanghai-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in China\u2019s largest city express growing frustration with Covid measures, as well as anger over food shortagesRead all our coronavirus coverageA rap about food shortages has become a hit in Shanghai, with the artists behind the song describing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022","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\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022\/revisions\/43023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}