{"id":58926,"date":"2023-10-03T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/03\/chinese-censors-block-tiananmen-image-of-athletes-hugging"},"modified":"2023-10-03T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:25:51","slug":"chinese-censors-block-tiananmen-image-of-athletes-hugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58926","title":{"rendered":"Chinese censors block \u2018Tiananmen\u2019 image of athletes hugging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture of athletes\u2019 \u20186\/4\u2019 race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacre<\/p>\n<p>A photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women\u2019s race numbers inadvertently formed a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China\u2019s entrants in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Lin won gold in the race with a time of 12.74 seconds. A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whyyoutouzhele\/status\/1708923930327560294\">photograph<\/a> of the two women in profile showed Lin\u2019s lane number, 6, next to Wu\u2019s lane number, 4.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/03\/chinese-censors-block-tiananmen-image-of-athletes-hugging\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture of athletes\u2019 \u20186\/4\u2019 race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacreA photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women\u2019s race numbers inadvertently formed a reference &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,2198,50,203,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-athletics","category-china","category-sport","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/58926","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58927,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58926\/revisions\/58927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}