{"id":552,"date":"2008-08-20T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=552"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:18","slug":"hua-guofeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/08\/hua-guofeng\/","title":{"rendered":"Hua Guofeng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often that a historic figure like Chairman Hua leaves us, and while I can&#8217;t possibly compete with <a href=\"http:\/\/granitestudio.org\/2008\/08\/20\/hua-guofeng-1921-2008\/\">Jeremiah <\/a>in my reverence for the red, red (well, light pink) sun of Chairman Hua, I did think I would post this picture of Hua and Mao that comes from one of my old China Pictorials<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3142\/2780707783_b622ed8d84.jpg?v=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"hua\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3142\/2780707783_b622ed8d84.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think this was taken close to the end of Mao&#8217;s life (from the picture it is hard to tell if it is before or after) and it is something I always use in class when talking about how various people tried to glom on to the old monster&#8217;s reputation and power after he was gone. Whatever you say about Hua<sup id=\"rf1-552\"><a href=\"#fn1-552\" title=\"and really, it is pretty sad to have much to say about him\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> he did get rid of the Gang of Four, which is more good than most politicians have done.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnotes\"><ol class=\"footnotes\" style=\"list-style-type:decimal\"><li id=\"fn1-552\"><p >and really, it is pretty sad to have much to say about him&nbsp;<a href=\"#rf1-552\" class=\"backlink\" title=\"Return to footnote 1.\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often that a historic figure like Chairman Hua leaves us, and while I can&#8217;t possibly compete with Jeremiah in my reverence for the red, red (well, light pink) sun of Chairman Hua, I did think I would post this picture of Hua and Mao that comes from one of my old China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[165,112,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-current-events","category-post-mao"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-8U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}