{"id":23,"date":"2005-07-20T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:42:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:42:19","slug":"hot-topics-zheng-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/07\/hot-topics-zheng-he\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Topics: Zheng He"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year is the six hundreth anniversary of the first voyage of Zheng He, notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/20\/international\/asia\/20letter.html?8hpib\">New York Times<\/a>. The article makes no mention of Menzie&#8217;s <i>1421<\/i> thesis, which leads me to hope that that particular wave has crested. It does, however, spend considerable time on NYTimes&#8217; own Kristof&#8217;s favorite factoid: Africans descended from Chinese sailors. Also on contemporary naval defense issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is the six hundreth anniversary of the first voyage of Zheng He, notes the New York Times. The article makes no mention of Menzie&#8217;s 1421 thesis, which leads me to hope that that particular wave has crested. It does, however, spend considerable time on NYTimes&#8217; own Kristof&#8217;s favorite factoid: Africans descended from Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[165,115,119,126,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-diplomacy","category-english","category-general","category-ming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}