{"id":4143,"date":"2016-03-09T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:19:58","slug":"the-chinese-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-chinese-paradox.html","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In China, the best way to teach new recruits how to stand straight and look ahead is to accustom the soldiers to wear a cross in back for a while.<\/p>\n<p>In a country that continues to persecute Christians and to restrict religious and civil liberties of the people, <strong>the cross is still the first task and lesson that people entered in the military service learn to uphold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in eastern coast of China. The journalists of the <em>Le Figaro<\/em> newspaper &#8211; who popularized in the West this picture &#8211; said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For them it is impossible to totter. They should stand upright. And to guarantee the success of the workout, these soldiers in training (&#8230;) bear a wooden cross in the back, ensuring their flawless attire. Every year there are several participants in such a strict exercise, its purpose being the best possible preparing of the new recruits for the rigors of the profession&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #807c7c;\">Pro Jesus&#8217; sources:<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #807c7c;\"><em>Gou guangjie &#8211; Imaginechina<\/em>, published in <em>Le Figaro<\/em>, November 14, 2011<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In China, the best way to teach new recruits how to stand straight and look ahead is to accustom the soldiers to wear a cross in back for a while. In a country that continues to persecute Christians and to restrict religious and civil liberties of the people, the cross is still the first task&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-chinese-paradox.html\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145],"tags":[464,462,463],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20111114PHOWWW00435.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}