{"id":5458,"date":"2009-04-24T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T08:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2009-04-24T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T08:37:56","slug":"monkeys_locked_up_in_cages_ris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/monkeys_locked_up_in_cages_ris.php","title":{"rendered":"Caged monkeys in Dongguan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/dongguanshibaojpg-5862.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/dongguanshibaojpg-5862.php','popup','width=400,height=592,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/dongguanshibaojpg-thumb-160x236-5862.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"236\" alt=\"dongguanshibaojpg.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionStyle\" style=\"width: 160px;\"><em>Dongguan Times<\/em><br >April 24, 2009<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Dongguan Times<\/em> expresses concern over the plight of over a hundred locked-up monkeys that were found in the city yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper&#8217;s report, the monkeys were found packed up in cages and waiting to be loaded to a truck at the city&#8217;s railway station yesterday morning. The cages were marked as being sent by rail from Xi&#8217;an.<\/p>\n<p>A worker who was loading the truck told the newspaper that the monkeys would be trained to perform. But some spectators at the scene expressed their doubts. One of them suggested that the monkeys may end up supplying local upscale restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an entirely baseless assumption: last year, over 1,500 cats were transported to Dongguan to be sold in local produce markets for nine to fourteen yuan a kilo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lshead\">Links and Sources<\/div>\n<div class=\"lstext\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Dongguan Time<\/em> (Chinese): <a href=\"http:\/\/dgtime.timedg.com\/html\/2009-04\/24\/content_284853.htm\">Two trucks of monkeys worried the good people of Dongguan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Earlier on Danwei: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/front_page_of_the_day\/cat_trade.php\">Where do Nanjing&#8217;s stray cats end up?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Dongguan Times<\/em> expresses concern over the plight of over a hundred locked-up monkeys that were found in the city yesterday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/monkeys_locked_up_in_cages_ris.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[3676,2895,2381,3399],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-of-the-day","tag-animal-rights","tag-dongguan","tag-dongguan-times","tag-monkeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}