{"id":1828,"date":"2014-06-25T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2014-06-25T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:56:46","slug":"house-committee-votes-to-give-chinese-embassy-new-address-no-1-liu-xiaobo-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/house-committee-votes-to-give-chinese-embassy-new-address-no-1-liu-xiaobo-plaza","title":{"rendered":"House committee votes to give Chinese Embassy new address: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">BY MICHAEL LARIS June 24 at 12:54 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to rename the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy \u201cLiu Xiaobo Plaza,\u201d a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and a slap at the human rights record of officials in Beijing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The white-stone compound currently sits at 3505 International Place NW, not far from the Panda House at the National Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>But the amendment to the annual State Department spending bill, offered by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), instructs Secretary of State John Kerry to rename the street and declares: \u201cFor the purposes of United States Postal code, hereafter the proper address of the Embassy of the People\u2019s Republic of China in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/dr-gridlock\/wp\/2014\/06\/24\/house-committee-votes-to-give-chinese-embassy-new-address-no-1-liu-xiaobo-plaza\/\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MICHAEL LARIS June 24 at 12:54 PM The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/house-committee-votes-to-give-chinese-embassy-new-address-no-1-liu-xiaobo-plaza\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,51],"tags":[277,1341,489],"views":1101,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}