{"id":636,"date":"2004-03-15T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=636"},"modified":"2004-03-15T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T07:19:39","slug":"when-a-newspaper-shutdown-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/when-a-newspaper-shutdown-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"When a newspaper shutdown is a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 600 Chinese party organs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorsweblog.org\/2004\/03\/china_closes_67.html\">biting the dust<\/a>, editorsweblog reports.  You have to love the logic of a command economy: These rags are being shuttered to save the government money and to relieve the peasants in the provinces from the <i>mandatory<\/i> subscriptions the&#8217;ve been paying for all these years.<br \/>\n<P>Next time your publisher puts the arm on you to subscribe to the paper, you&#8217;ve got your stock answer: what is this, Red China?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 600 Chinese party organs are biting the dust, editorsweblog reports. You have to love the logic of a command economy: These rags are being shuttered to save the government money and to relieve the peasants in the provinces&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/when-a-newspaper-shutdown-is-a-good-thing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}