{"id":1314,"date":"2022-03-09T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:32:42","slug":"mao-waves-hello-in-his-bathrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/mao-waves-hello-in-his-bathrobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mao waves &#8220;hello&#8221; in his Bathrobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife bought me a wonderful statue of Mao in a flee market in Shanghai, which has become one of my prize possessions and has a plum spot in my study. It was of Mao in his bathrobe after he had swum the width of the Yang-tse River. Here is a photo of my statue:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MaoBathrobe-statue.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Like any good dictator Mao wanted to show that he had superior physical powers and therefore was worthy of ruling China. He used to swim the width of the Yang-tse river unassisted (supposedly?) and then emerge, wrap himself in a bathrobe, and acknowledge the universal acclamation of the adoring Chinese people. The image of him dressed in this fashion was used for propaganda purposes as this poster indicates.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MaoYangtse.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Here is another:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MaoBathRobe.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Images\/Propaganda\/MaoBathRobe-800.jpg\">See a larger version of this image &#8211; 800px wide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My advice to Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet is to swim across one of the flooded NSW rivers for a similar photo op. This might (or might not) increase their chances of re-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife bought me a wonderful statue of Mao in a flee market in Shanghai, which has become one of my prize possessions and has a plum spot in my study. It was of Mao in his bathrobe after he had swum the width of the Yang-tse River. Here is a photo of my statue: &#8230; <a title=\"Mao waves &#8220;hello&#8221; in his Bathrobe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/mao-waves-hello-in-his-bathrobe\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mao waves &#8220;hello&#8221; in his Bathrobe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-propaganda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}