{"id":27889,"date":"2012-06-05T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=27889 "},"modified":"2012-06-05T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:39:00","slug":"27889-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=27889","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Square Quietly Remembered 23 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p>BEIJING &#8211; Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square  massacre, but in China any mention of that day remains forbidden.<\/p> <p>The Chinese government, which forbids any recognition of the massacre  and the events leading up to it, has taken special measures in the last  few days to further censor acknowledgement of the protests. Chinese  micro-bloggers on the popular site Sina Weibo particularly felt the  effects of censorship. Dissident posts were &#8220;harmonized&#8221; (removed) in  minutes, profile pictures could not be changed, and the candle emoticon  was removed.<\/p> <p>The list of blocked words was extensive, including words, names and  numbers that related to the incident from &#8220;never forget&#8221; to &#8220;tank&#8221; to  &#8220;-ism.&#8221; On television, the BBC&#8217;s channel was blacked out during their  segment on Tiananmen.<\/p> <p>In the square on Sunday a small group of protesters were beaten and  detained, Mao&#8217;s mausoleum was closed, and large groups of uniformed and  plainclothes police monitored the area. Today, it was quiet save for  slightly heightened police presence.<\/p> <p>However, the government hasn&#8217;t been able to control all responses to  the anniversary. The U.S. Department of State issued a statement  acknowledging the loss of life in the massacre, and encouraging the  Chinese government&#8217;s protection of human rights.<\/p><div>Continue reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2012\/06\/tiananmen-square-quietly-remembered-23-years-later\/\">original article<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, any mention of June 4th remains forbidden in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}