{"id":357,"date":"2014-07-22T19:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/?p=357"},"modified":"2014-07-23T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:30:24","slug":"stop-press-matches-banned-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/stop-press-matches-banned-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Press &#8211; Matches banned in China!&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Matches_banned_in_ChinaWEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Matches_banned_in_ChinaWEB.jpg\" alt=\"Save Our Matches! \" width=\"541\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Save Our Matches!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">BEIJING &#8212; A city in China&#8217;s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang has banned matches and destroyed more than 20,000 boxes of them as part of efforts to fight terror attacks, a state-run newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by &#8220;terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities,&#8221; the People&#8217;s Daily said on its website.\u00a0Police destroyed 20,223 boxes of matches, which will ensure that the city maintains its current peaceful environment, the newspaper added, citing the local government.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BannedMatches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BannedMatches.jpg\" alt=\"Matches banned in China! Idea for Lucky Lucifer matches - Book four: 'Refugee camp sought for Lucky Lucifer matches.'\" width=\"411\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matches banned in China!<br \/>Idea for Lucky Lucifer matches &#8211; Book four:<br \/>&#8216;Refugee camp sought for Lucky Lucifer matches.&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The county police made the original announcement last week but it was only picked up by state media on Tuesday.\u00a0The announcement didn&#8217;t say how the matches are used for criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/16LucifersWEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/16LucifersWEB.jpg\" alt=\"16LucifersWEB\" width=\"511\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; A city in China&#8217;s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang has banned matches and destroyed more than 20,000 boxes of them as part of efforts to fight terror attacks, a state-run newspaper said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,22,21],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-bit-of-everything","tag-lucifer-verhalen-voor-kinderen","tag-match-boxes","tag-matches-banned-in-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}