{"id":1152,"date":"2008-12-23T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2008-12-24T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T12:37:09","slug":"editors-pick-2008-ai-weiwei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s pick 2008: Ai Weiwei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ai_weiwei.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ai_weiwei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ai_weiwei.jpg\" alt=\"Ai Weiwei\" width=\"92\" height=\"114\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>China&#8217;s greatest artist, <em>Ai Weiwei<\/em>, caused controversy in the summer when he announced he would stay away from the Olympic Games, despite being the creative mind behind Beijing&#8217;s Bird&#8217;s Nest Stadium. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview for <em>Index on Censorship<\/em>&#8216;s &#8216;Made in China issue&#8217;, he told <em>Simon Kirby<\/em> about challenging state censorship and the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ai-weiwei_a_309689.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ai_weiwei.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ai_weiwei.jpg\" alt=\"Ai Weiwei\" title=\"ai_weiwei\" width=\"92\" height=\"114\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>China&#8217;s greatest artist, <em>Ai Weiwei<\/em>, caused controversy in the summer when he announced he would stay away from the Olympic Games, despite being the creative mind behind Beijing&#8217;s Bird&#8217;s Nest Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview for <em>Index on Censorship<\/em>&#8216;s &#8216;Made in China issue&#8217;, he told <em>Simon Kirby<\/em> about challenging state censorship and the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ai-weiwei_a_309689.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[327,103,7364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}