{"id":4475,"date":"2019-03-01T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2019-02-25T22:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:44:19","slug":"cgtn-interview-with-xi-chuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4475","title":{"rendered":"CGTN interview with Xi Chuan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/frLNn1heDpk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Tian Wei interviews Xi Chuan for China Global Television Network. The setup is exceedingly cheesey, but the interview is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tian Wei interviews Xi Chuan for China Global Television Network. The setup is exceedingly cheesey, but the interview is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,11,7],"tags":[2091,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-1ab","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=336","url_meta":{"origin":4475,"position":0},"title":"International Poetry Nights Wrap-up","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The final reading of the International Poetry Nights Hong Kong 2011 took place last night, with Paul Muldoon (Ireland \/ USA), Tian Yuan \u7530\u539f (China\/Japan), and Yip Fai \u8449\u7147 (Hong Kong) reading. 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