{"id":16889,"date":"2013-06-16T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=16889"},"modified":"2013-06-16T07:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T03:45:22","slug":"china-censors-winnie-the-pooh-from-online-searches-after-photo-emerges-of-president-xi-jinping-that-makes-him-look-like-the-childrens-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=16889","title":{"rendered":"China censors Winnie the Pooh from online searches after photo emerges of president Xi Jinping that makes him look like the children\u2019s favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Winni-the-Pooh-and-Tiger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16885\" alt=\"Winni the Pooh and Tiger\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Winni-the-Pooh-and-Tiger.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Winni-the-Pooh-and-Tiger.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Winni-the-Pooh-and-Tiger-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>He is a beloved fictional bear described as having &#8216;very little brain&#8217; who lives on a diet of honey and is best friends with a piglet.<\/p>\n<p>But when a trivial comparison was made between China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh, the country&#8217;s strict censorship laws swung into action.<\/p>\n<p>A picture of Xi Jinping walking with Barack Obama at a California summit was published on the Chinese social media site Weibo.<\/p>\n<p>It was placed next to an illustrated image of Winnie the Pooh and his pal Tigger, who have been drawn in a similar pose to the politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Comments that were posted on the blog were removed and the picture was deleted by website monitors.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being removed form the site, the images went viral, with critics saying over-zealous censors had misread the frivolous comparison.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party&#8217;s censors are known for interfering with even the most minor of government criticism on social networking sites.<\/p>\n<p>The blogger, called Nicaragua Rabbit posted the two pictures on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is a beloved fictional bear described as having &#8216;very little brain&#8217; who lives on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-16889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-china-2","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}