{"id":1870,"date":"2014-10-22T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:03","slug":"city-weekend-magazine-says-forbidden-game-is-china-writing-at-its-most-thoughtful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/city-weekend-magazine-says-forbidden-game-is-china-writing-at-its-most-thoughtful\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>City Weekend<\/em> magazine says <em>Forbidden Game<\/em> &#8216;is China writing at its most thoughtful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Carter writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washburn is not only a gifted writer, cleverly sketching out interconnected, character-driven portraits, but an empathetic reporter. These stories have heart, and it is clear from the first passage that the author has taken a deeply personal interest in the people he is profiling. <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em> is China writing at its most thoughtful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityweekend.com.cn\/shanghai\/\" target=\"_blank\">City Weekend<\/a><\/em> review below (click the image for a larger version).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai.png\" alt=\"Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai\" width=\"640\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1871\" data-wp-pid=\"1871\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai.png 1269w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-232x300.png 232w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-1160x1494.png 1160w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-260x334.png 260w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-360x463.png 360w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-560x721.png 560w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-760x979.png 760w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-620x800.png 620w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forbidden-Game-review_City-Weekend-Shanghai-800x1031.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1269px) 100vw, 1269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Carter writes: Washburn is not only a gifted writer, cleverly sketching out interconnected, character-driven portraits, but an empathetic reporter. These stories have heart, and it is clear from the first passage that the author has taken a deeply personal interest in the people he &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[4,333,174,151],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-china","tag-city-weekend","tag-reviews","tag-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}