{"id":1541,"date":"2011-07-26T00:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/26\/ai-weiwei-breaks-his-social-media-silence-by\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:39","slug":"ai-weiwei-breaks-his-social-media-silence-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/26\/ai-weiwei-breaks-his-social-media-silence-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei Breaks His Social Media Silence By Joining Google+ (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/322778234\/ai-weiwei-breaks-his-social-media-silence-by-joining-google-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/zdn1b-Dy1szFkAtNXjW_5Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><br \/>Before his arrest and subsequent release by the Chinese government, Ai Weiwei was an active Twitter user, frequently updating and interacting with his over 90,000 followers about his life and projects.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/25\/ai-weiwei-breaks-his-soci_n_908889.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Show original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesBefore his arrest and subsequent release by the Chinese government, Ai Weiwei was an active Twitter user, frequently updating and interacting with his over 90,000 followers about his life and projects.Show original<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1269,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/16\/ai-weiwei-every-day-i-think-this-will-be-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":1541,"position":0},"title":"Ai Weiwei: &#8216;Every day I\u00a0think, this will be the day I get taken in\u00a0again&#8230;&#8217;","author":"aslam","date":"December 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Tania Branigan: The more he is harassed by his government, the more Ai Weiwei becomes a symbol of activism in China. 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