{"id":771,"date":"2012-03-05T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2012-03-05T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:21:13","slug":"xi-chuan-reading-at-the-beijing-bookworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan reading at the Beijing Bookworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beijingbookworm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"773\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?attachment_id=773\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?fit=1748%2C2480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1748,2480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beijing Bookworm Women&#8217;s Day Reading\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?fit=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?fit=584%2C829&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-773\" title=\"Beijing Bookworm Women's Day Reading\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?resize=584%2C829&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?resize=721%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 721w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?w=1748&amp;ssl=1 1748w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beijing-Bookworm-Womens-Day-Reading1.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31,9,7],"tags":[407,406,255,405,403,408,404,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-cr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":916,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=916","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":0},"title":"TONIGHT&#8211;Xi Chuan &#038; Lucas Klein Reading at the Beijing Bookworm","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight--Thursday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m., Xi Chuan and I will be reading from Notes on the Mosquito at the Beijing Bookworm bookstore (Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing \u4e09\u91cc\u5c6f\u5357\u88574\u53f7\u9662). 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