{"id":18714,"date":"2012-02-01T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2012-02-01T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T12:30:51","slug":"hunan-county-pats-itself-on-back-for-being-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/02\/01\/hunan-county-pats-itself-on-back-for-being-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunan County Pats Itself on Back for Being Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The spokesman from the country&#8217;s top poverty reduction authority on Tuesday blamed the &#8220;foolish behavior&#8221; of a county government in Central China&#8217;s Hunan province for posting cheerful remarks about being named a State-level poverty-stricken area.<\/p>\n<p>A picture posted online shows a huge screen with LED lights reading &#8220;Warm congratulations to Xinshao county for being successfully included in the country&#8217;s poverty-stricken areas, which will become the main battlefield for the country&#8217;s poverty alleviation work&#8221;. (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/bizchina\/2012-02\/01\/content_14520519.htm\">China Daily<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For pity&#8217;s sake, you poor ignorant crackers. It&#8217;s not a freakin&#8217; honor, it&#8217;s a measure of just how desperate your situation is and how much outside assistance you require.\u00a0Yes, these folks meant well. It&#8217;s good news for them to be allowed into this program, which will undoubtedly mean sorely-needed government funding. Good news, indeed, but really not something you want to advertise on a big screen. Epic fail.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><small>\u00a9 Stan for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\">China Hearsay<\/a>, 2012. |\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/hunan-county-pats-itself-on-back-for-being-poor\/\">Permalink<\/a> |\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/hunan-county-pats-itself-on-back-for-being-poor\/#comments\">No comment<\/a> |\nAdd to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/hunan-county-pats-itself-on-back-for-being-poor\/&title=Hunan%20County%20Pats%20Itself%20on%20Back%20for%20Being%20Poor\">del.icio.us<\/a>\n<br\/>\nPost tags: <br\/>\n<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesman from the country's top poverty reduction authority on Tuesday blamed the \"foolish behavior\" of a county government in Central China's Hunan province for posting cheerful remarks about being named a State-level poverty-stricken area. A picture posted online shows a huge screen with LED lights reading \"Warm congratulations to Xinshao county for being successfully [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2059],"class_list":["post-18714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law","tag-short-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}