{"id":3910,"date":"2024-03-14T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2024-04-23T20:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T20:12:45","slug":"let-a-hundred-flowers-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let a hundred flowers bloom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1690\" height=\"1170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36.jpeg 1690w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36-580x402.jpeg 580w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36-940x651.jpeg 940w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36-768x532.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36-1536x1063.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Image-14-03-2024-at-10.36-433x300.jpeg 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1690px) 100vw, 1690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the recent publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebrown.co.uk\/titles\/simon-ings-2\/engineers-of-human-souls\/9780349128580\/\">Engineers of Human Souls<\/a>, I got to discuss censorship, free speech and modern China with journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/private-revolutions-9781526655882\/\">Yuan Yang<\/a> and philosopher Jeffrey Howard when Rana Mitter hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m001x3zq\">Radio 3&#8217;s Free Thinking<\/a> on 19 March 2024. The programme is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m001x3zq\">available on BBC Sounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the recent publication of Engineers of Human Souls, I got to discuss censorship, free speech and modern China with journalist Yuan Yang and philosopher Jeffrey Howard when Rana Mitter hosted Radio 3&#8217;s Free Thinking on 19 March 2024. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3910\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1164,14,1011,31,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-books","category-engineers","category-events","category-fact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}