{"id":146331,"date":"2012-11-08T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=146331"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:09:08","slug":"cartoon-the-crack-in-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/11\/cartoon-the-crack-in-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Crack in the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/11\/cartoon-the-crack-in-the-wall\/%e5%87%bf%e5%a3%81%e5%80%9f%e5%85%89\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-146332\" title=\"\u51ff\u58c1\u501f\u5149\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/\u51ff\u58c1\u501f\u5149.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"1488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weibo Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/weibo.com\/1408482140\/z205smsPQ\">@ZEEKO<\/a> has a new take on &#8220;chiseling at the wall to borrow the light&#8221; (\u51ff\u58c1\u501f\u5149). The idiom comes from the story of Kuang Heng, a Confucian scholar who as a young boy studied at night by the light coming through a crack he had chiseled in his bedroom wall. In this modern twist, this tall, heavily-guarded wall could be the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Great_Firewall_of_China\">Great Firewall<\/a>&#8211;or the secrecy of the party-state itself&#8211;and the crack in the wall is the free Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\" http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/2012\/11\/%E3%80%90%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E3%80%91zeeko%EF%BC%9A%E5%87%BF%E5%A3%81%E5%80%9F%E5%85%89\/\">CDT Chinese<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weibo Artist @ZEEKO has a new take on &#8220;chiseling at the wall to borrow the light&#8221; (\u51ff\u58c1\u501f\u5149). The idiom comes from the story of Kuang Heng, a Confucian scholar who as a young boy studied at night by the light coming through a crack he had chiseled in his bedroom wall. 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