{"id":56002,"date":"2023-06-15T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/15\/glum-chinese-graduates-go-viral-with-pictures-of-misery-amid-jobs-anxiety"},"modified":"2023-06-15T18:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:39:55","slug":"glum-chinese-graduates-go-viral-with-pictures-of-misery-amid-jobs-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56002","title":{"rendered":"Glum Chinese graduates go viral with pictures of misery amid jobs anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos shared on social media show students draping themselves over park benches or stairs in poses of dejection<\/p>\n<p>As millions of young people in China graduate from university this month, the traditional pictures of joyful students throwing their hats and gowns into the air have been replaced by photos of them <a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/1465085660\/N56JwfRDe\">lying on the ground<\/a> or throwing their degree certificates into the bin.<\/p>\n<p>Some photos show students draping themselves over bridges or park benches in poses of dejection. In others, students lie face down on stairs or in grassy fields.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/15\/glum-chinese-graduates-go-viral-with-pictures-of-misery-amid-jobs-anxiety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos shared on social media show students draping themselves over park benches or stairs in poses of dejectionAs millions of young people in China graduate from university this month, the traditional pictures of joyful students throwing their hats an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3801,"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":[41,50,615,862,693,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-education","category-higher-education","category-students","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56002","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\/3801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56097,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56002\/revisions\/56097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}