{"id":3132,"date":"2007-12-19T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2007-12-19T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T10:20:25","slug":"workshop_of_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3132","title":{"rendered":"Workshop of the World &#8211; Fine Arts Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/workshop_of_the_world_fine_art.php\">James Fallows<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Which brings us to the Dafen &#8220;art factory village&#8221; outside Shenzhen, in southern China. I had heard a lot about Dafen, including in a very good story by Evan Osnos of the Chicago Tribune early this year. (The story seems no longer to be on the Tribune&#8217;s site. For reference, it was published on February 13, 2007.) But only this weekend did I see it, guided by Liam Casey, the Irish &#8220;Mr. China&#8221; I described a few months ago in an article about Shenzhen&#8217;s more conventional factories. Now that I&#8217;ve seen it &#8212; my lord!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/workshop_of_the_world_fine_art.php\">James Fallows<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Which brings us to the Dafen &#8220;art factory village&#8221; outside Shenzhen, in southern China. I had heard a lot about Dafen, including in a very good story by Evan Osnos of the Chicago Tribune early this year. (The story seems no longer to be on the Tribune&#8217;s site. For reference, it was published on February 13, 2007.) But only this weekend did I see it, guided by Liam Casey, the Irish &#8220;Mr. China&#8221; I described a few months ago in an article about Shenzhen&#8217;s more conventional factories. Now that I&#8217;ve seen it &#8212; my lord!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}