{"id":257,"date":"2015-05-27T03:13:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/?p=257"},"modified":"2017-02-15T03:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T03:37:12","slug":"no-monkey-king-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/2015\/05\/27\/no-monkey-king-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"No Monkey King in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shen Yun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s production <em>The Monkey King<\/em> was scheduled to perform in Ecuador as part of its 2015 tour of South America. But a week before the performances, the Ecuadorian House of Culture officially cancelled the shows at the National Theatre. Local presenters cited month-long pressure from the Chinese Embassy to Ecuador as the cause for the sudden, last-minute cancelation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have tried telling them in every possible way that they are violating the freedom of expression of the Ecuadorian people, that they are censoring culture in a democratic country and are doing so through a foreign country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Alejandro Nadal, a representative of the Falun Dafa Association of Ecuador, the performance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presenter in Quito.<\/p>\n<p>Read blog by Shen Yun dancer Gary Liu who had traveled to Ecuador with the production expecting to perform. (<a href=\"http:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/2015\/05\/29\/guest-post-by-dancer-gary-liu-ecuador\/\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shen Yun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s production The Monkey King was scheduled to perform in Ecuador as part of its 2015 tour of South America. But a week before the performances, the Ecuadorian House of Culture officially cancelled the shows at the National Theatre. Local presenters cited month-long pressure from the Chinese Embassy to Ecuador as the cause for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}