{"id":527,"date":"2008-07-31T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-31T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:22:07","slug":"chin-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Chin up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has come to my attention that some comments made on my July 14th entry may have been misinterpreted.  &#8220;Chins&#8221; was referring to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qin_Dynasty\" title=\"Ch'in Dynasty\">Ch&#8217;in Dynasty<\/a> (or &#8220;Qin&#8221; in pinyin), <b>not<\/b> the racial slur &#8220;chink.&#8221;  Death by a thousand cuts, otherwise known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slow_slicing\" title=\"slow-slicing\">slow-slicing<\/a>&#8221; was a torture method invented in China and used during the &#8220;Imperial Period.&#8221;   The Qin Dynasty is generally recognized as the first dynasty of this Imperial Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has come to my attention that some comments made on my July 14th entry may have been misinterpreted. &#8220;Chins&#8221; was referring to the Ch&#8217;in Dynasty (or &#8220;Qin&#8221; in pinyin), not the racial slur &#8220;chink.&#8221; Death by a thousand cuts, otherwise known as &#8220;slow-slicing&#8221; was a torture method invented in China and used during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}