{"id":47637,"date":"2022-08-19T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/china-wild-trip-deaths-put-social-media-influencers-under-spotlight"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:40:48","slug":"china-wild-trip-deaths-put-social-media-influencers-under-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47637","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018wild trip\u2019 deaths put social media influencers under spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posts touting off-grid locations as \u2018secret resorts\u2019 have fuelled a travel craze that is now being criticised over risks to public safety<\/p>\n<p> Chinese social media influencers and their platforms have come under fire for posts about \u201cwild trips\u201d \u2013 or visits to off-grid locations \u2013 after a huge flood killed seven tourists in Sichuan province.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy, on 13 August, left seven tourists dead and eight injured after a flash flood at a valley in Mengzhou, in the country\u2019s south-west.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/china-wild-trip-deaths-put-social-media-influencers-under-spotlight\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posts touting off-grid locations as \u2018secret resorts\u2019 have fuelled a travel craze that is now being criticised over risks to public safety Chinese social media influencers and their platforms have come under fire for posts about \u201cwild trips\u201d \u2013 or visits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3270,"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":[41,50,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-social-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637","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\/3270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions\/47638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}