{"id":612,"date":"2009-10-05T22:37:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2009-10-05T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:37:30","slug":"enjoy-your-60th-anniversary-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2009\/10\/05\/enjoy-your-60th-anniversary-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Your 60th Anniversary at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091001_national_holiday_china_cctv001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091001_national_holiday_china_cctv001.jpg\" alt=\"Hu Jintao rides in his motorcade around Tiananmen on live TV\" title=\"Hu Jintao rides in his motorcade around Tiananmen on live TV\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>The celebrations surrounding the 60th Anniversary of the foundation of the People&#8217;s Republic of China took over Beijing this past week. However, on the actual anniversary, October 1, people were cleared off the streets due to the high-profile military parade snaking across the head of Tiananmen Square. Everything was carefully orchestrated for this massive made-for-TV event. Even the sky miraculously turned a deep blue thanks to weather control programs. In the end, the only way people could really interact with the special occasion was complaisantly at home via televised programming or by cramming into Tiananmen Square over the next week to inspect the floats used in the parade. Despite all the control, everyone was stirred up into a proper nationalistic fervor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091005_national_holiday_china_tiananmen005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091005_national_holiday_china_tiananmen005.jpg\" alt=\"Locals pose in front of the Mao portrait at the entrance to the Forbidden City\" title=\"Locals pose in front of the Mao portrait at the entrance to the Forbidden City\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-616\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091003_national_holiday_china_tiananmen004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091003_national_holiday_china_tiananmen004.jpg\" alt=\"Guards hold back crowds on Tiananmen during the flag lowering ceremony\" title=\"Guards hold back crowds on Tiananmen during the flag lowering ceremony\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091002_national_holiday_china_tiananmen002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091002_national_holiday_china_tiananmen002.jpg\" alt=\"Locals flocked to Tiananmen to take photos with floats used in the 60th Anniversary Parade\" title=\"Locals flocked to Tiananmen to take photos with floats used in the 60th Anniversary Parade\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-613\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091002_national_holiday_china_tiananmen003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091002_national_holiday_china_tiananmen003.jpg\" alt=\"Locals flocked to Tiananmen to take photos with floats used in the 60th Anniversary Parade\" title=\"Locals flocked to Tiananmen to take photos with floats used in the 60th Anniversary Parade\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The celebrations surrounding the 60th Anniversary of the foundation of the People&#8217;s Republic of China took over Beijing this past week. However, on the actual anniversary, October 1, people were cleared off the streets due to the high-profile military parade snaking across the head of Tiananmen Square. Everything was carefully orchestrated for this massive made-for-TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[12],"tags":[26,39,75,79,182,262,304,311],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society_category","tag-anniversary","tag-beijing","tag-celebration","tag-china","tag-government","tag-media","tag-parade","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}