{"id":1192,"date":"2016-01-08T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/chinese-village-destroys-lavish-golden-statue-of-chairman-mao\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:12:10","slug":"chinese-village-destroys-lavish-golden-statue-of-chairman-mao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/chinese-village-destroys-lavish-golden-statue-of-chairman-mao\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese village destroys lavish golden statue of Chairman Mao"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An imposing golden statue of China’s late Communist leader Mao Zedong, which towered over crop fields in an eastern village, has been destroyed.<\/p>\n

The 120-foot-tall figure, built in near the city of Kaifeng in Henan province from steel beams and concrete, grabbed international attention earlier this week after photos of the statue<\/a> began circulating online. The statue showed a seated Mao, perched atop a throne-like base gazing out on the empty fields, which some saw as ironic because Mao has been blamed for widespread famine and the deaths of millions<\/p>\n

But a series of new images<\/a> posted on Friday in Chinese media show what appear to be the destroyed hands, legs and feet of the statue. A black cloth is also draped over Mao’s head. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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An imposing golden statue of China’s late Communist leader Mao Zedong, which towered over crop fields in an eastern village, has been destroyed. The 120-foot-tall figure, built in near the city of Kaifeng in Henan province from steel beams and … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[777,778,732],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-china","tag-mao-zedong","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}