{"id":85302,"date":"2014-05-13T19:52:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=85302"},"modified":"2014-05-13T19:52:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:52:02","slug":"is-this-the-worst-job-in-the-world-man-in-china-makes-living-as-a-human-punchbag-letting-people-hit-him-as-hard-as-they-can-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=85302","title":{"rendered":"Is this the worst job in the world? Man in China makes living as a human PUNCHBAG letting people hit him as hard as they can for money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/china-man1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85300\" alt=\"china-man1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/china-man1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/china-man1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/china-man1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/china-man1-477x300.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese man has turned himself into a human punch bag with people paying money to hit him as hard as they can.<\/p>\n<p>Xie Shuiping, 48, offers up himself to people on the streets and in bars and nightclubs, giving them the chance to punch him in the stomach three times.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Xie, of Wuhan city in Hubei province, says he can earn around 20,000 yuan (\u00a31879) a month, enough to make a decent living out of it.<\/p>\n<p>He started his career as a human punch bag in 2004 in a promotional show at a supermarket, where he allowed audience members to hit him over the head with wine bottles.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, he started to earn money by allowing people to hit him as hard as they can.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Xie, each of his \u2018performances\u2019 last around 20 minutes with paying customers allowed to punch his stomach three times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Chinese man has turned himself into a human punch bag with people paying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[10054,1111],"class_list":["post-85302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-punchbag","tag-1111","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85302","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=85302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}