{"id":4108,"date":"2008-03-18T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2008-03-18T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T09:24:10","slug":"lethal_english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/theater\/lethal_english.php","title":{"rendered":"Lethal English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LE_logo_small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/2008\/03\/18\/LE_logo_small.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"197\" class=\"mt-image-left\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionStyle\" style=\"width: 200px;\">Maybe it should have been called &#8216;Cuddly English&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From I Heart Beijing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartbeijing.com\/blog\/?p=119\">an inconvenient protest \ud83d\ude41<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have some sad news to share with everyone\u2026 the opening in Chengdu of my new play, \u201cLethal English\u201d has been postponed (until late April or May) due to the current situation in the western region of China. I don\u2019t want to go into detail, suffice it to say that I was first recommended to postpone the show, and then I got a phone call last night warning me that the material in the play was too sensitive for the area right now.<\/p>\n<p>A nice reminder that I live in China.<\/p>\n<p>That, and the fact that gmail isn\u2019t working, most news websites are only partially viewable, and that my email has stopped coming into my personal inbox (thank ye gods for proxy servers!)<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I blame Bjork and her ill-timed concert protest. (That, and the British, I mean, they\u2019re to blame for everything, right?)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While on the subject of the British, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x9QNKB34cJo\">quaint piece of user generated propaganda<\/a> does make the point that &#8220;1903AD British gained control of T\u00eebet as an colonial region and treated them as salves&#8221; (the link is to a video on Youtube).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A play in Chengdu is cancelled.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/theater\/lethal_english.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[1509,545],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater","tag-sichuan","tag-tibet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}