{"id":36455,"date":"2009-03-27T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=36455"},"modified":"2009-03-27T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:16:41","slug":"grieving-parents-gain-clout-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/03\/grieving-parents-gain-clout-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieving Parents Gain Clout In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Eunjung Cha <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/27\/AR2009032703292.html\">reports in the Washington Post:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Zhao Lianhai created a Web site for parents of children hurt or killed by contaminated milk, he did not set out to challenge the Communist Party. He did it because his son was sick. The 3-year-old had been diagnosed with kidney stones and Zhao was scared. He needed advice.<\/p>\n<p>Within days, more than 4,000 families signed up, and soon the discussion evolved from technical questions and answers about medical care to demands for punishment and compensation. It wasn&#8217;t long before the 37-year-old former advertising salesman became the de facto spokesman, organizer and lobbyist for thousands of parents across the country whose children had suffered after drinking infant formula or milk that had been illegally doctored with the industrial chemical melamine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Eunjung Cha reports in the Washington Post: When Zhao Lianhai created a Web site for parents of children hurt or killed by contaminated milk, he did not set out to challenge the Communist Party. He did it because his son was sick. The 3-year-old had been diagnosed with kidney stones and Zhao was scared. 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