{"id":61580,"date":"2013-12-26T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=61580"},"modified":"2013-12-26T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T03:18:16","slug":"elderly-chinese-man-deployed-six-homemade-cannons-to-stop-his-home-being-demolished-without-his-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=61580","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Chinese man deployed six homemade CANNONS to stop his home being demolished without his consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-61576\" alt=\"\u0549\u056b\u0576\u0561\u0581\u056b \u057f\u0572\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0580\u0564\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An elderly man deployed six homemade cannons around his home to prevent it from being demolished.<\/p>\n<p>Zhou Jianbang set the dummy weapons up after watching neighbours\u2019 houses torn down allegedly without consent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zhou insisted his cannons would not have caused any harm and civil police in Xingyang, Henan, central China, confirmed he had not broken any laws.<\/p>\n<p>Each costing 100 yuan (around \u00a310), Zhou deployed the cannons to protect his home when he became insecure, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/cns-wire\/2013\/12-24\/94038.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">ECNS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-61577\" alt=\"\u0549\u056b\u0576\u0561\u0581\u056b \u057f\u0572\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0580\u0564, \u0569\u0576\u0564\u0561\u0576\u0578\u0569 \" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man3.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man3.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man3-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chinese-man3-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But a local official said they did not plan on demolishing the house and insisted this would not be done until an agreement had been reached.<\/p>\n<p>The community is being relocated, and just 34 of 340 households are allowed to stay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An elderly man deployed six homemade cannons around his home to prevent it from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[5199,3024],"class_list":["post-61580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-cannons","tag-chinese-man","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61580","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=61580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}