{"id":72740,"date":"2014-03-05T17:37:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=72740"},"modified":"2014-03-05T17:37:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:37:55","slug":"great-scrawl-of-china-special-section-of-ancient-wall-to-be-set-aside-to-allow-tourists-to-write-graffiti-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=72740","title":{"rendered":"Great Scrawl of China! Special section of ancient wall to be set aside to allow tourists to write graffiti on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of the Great Wall of China has been set aside for graffiti in a bid to save other parts being vandalised by tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities chose a popular stretch of the ancient monument where visitors can scrawl their names in the hope it will stop the spread of graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>A spot on the Mutianyu section in Huairou County, about 43 miles north-east of Beijing, was chosen. It is one of the most popular tourist spots along the wall.<\/p>\n<p>The graffiti section will be set up at one of the fighting towers that has become a common place there for tourists to scrawl on the walls.<\/p>\n<p>It attracts millions of tourists per year, 40 per cent of whom are estimated to be foreigners, which explains why most of the graffiti is in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A section of the Great Wall of China has been set aside for graffiti in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72740","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=72740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}