{"id":46500,"date":"2026-07-22T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46500"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:31:23","slug":"i-went-to-see-the-controversial-shen-yun-show-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46500","title":{"rendered":"I went to see the controversial &#8216;Shen Yun&#8217; show in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/stage\/shen-yun-is-everywhere-but-what-actually-happens-inside-one-of-its-shows-i-bought-a-ticket-to-see-for-myself\/article_c1826c64-9be7-4cc7-90e7-a9b94cc6806d.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a42d6f96181c.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:176px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The performance troupe, which claims to present \u201cChina before communism,\u201d has been magnet for controversy in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/stage\/shen-yun-is-everywhere-but-what-actually-happens-inside-one-of-its-shows-i-bought-a-ticket-to-see-for-myself\/article_c1826c64-9be7-4cc7-90e7-a9b94cc6806d.html\">I went to see the controversial &#8216;Shen Yun&#8217; show in Toronto<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>not me.  i don&#8217;t like dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The performance troupe, which claims to present \u201cChina before communism,\u201d has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,88],"class_list":["post-46500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-religion","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46503,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46500\/revisions\/46503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}