{"id":2161,"date":"2013-05-13T07:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2013-05-13T07:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:01:56","slug":"an-unfortunate-building-design-government-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/05\/13\/an-unfortunate-building-design-government-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"An unfortunate building design&#8230; government responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh my. Beijing is getting a new building. Construction scaffolding has created an&#8230; er&#8230; interesting situation. See for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blu.stb.s-msn.com\/i\/2A\/0D0BB42E9B76D467F76BF2BE17FF_h231_w308_m5_cmEnlvURR.jpg\" width=\"308\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People giggle. Government reacts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The People&#8217;s Daily, the leading Chinese newspaper and mouthpiece for the ruling Communist Party, is getting a new headquarters. Its home-to-be is under construction in Beijing, and so far the scaffolding-covered building looks a lot like a giant &#8230; well, see for yourself. Users on Sina Weibo, China&#8217;s Twitter equivalent, are predictably amused by the massive erection \u2014 or at least they were, until censors blocked links to photos of the unfinished building. On the bright side, the big penis complements\u00a0the nearby building\u00a0&#8220;The Underpants,&#8221; the nickname for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/images\/search?q=CCTV+headquarters+beijing&amp;FORM=MSNTRE\">headquarters of TV broadcaster CCTV<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/now.msn.com\/penis-shaped-building-under-construction-in-beijing\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Oh my. Beijing is getting a new building. Construction scaffolding has created an&#8230; er&#8230; interesting situation. See for yourself:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}