{"id":20583,"date":"2020-07-02T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p08jmybt"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:38:00","slug":"wuhan-city-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/07\/02\/wuhan-city-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan: City of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"The BBC\u2019s China correspondent, John Sudworth, travels to Wuhan \u2013 the city on the banks of the Yangtze river where Covid-19 first emerged. As the city returns to life, he examines one of the biggest questions on everyone\u2019s mind: did the virus emerge naturally or could it have been leaked, as the US alleges, from a Wuhan lab, where work was being carried out to research bat viruses? As John and his team discover, asking questions and getting answers in Wuhan is no easy task. \n\nReporter: John Sudworth \nProducer: Kathy Long \n\nPhoto: Two motorcyclists in Wuhan, China - June 2020 Credit: Getty Images\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p08jmybt\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC\u2019s China correspondent, John Sudworth, travels to Wuhan \u2013 the city on the banks of the Yangtze river where Covid-19 first emerged. As the city returns to life, he examines one of the biggest questions on everyone\u2019s mind: did the virus emerge nat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598551,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions\/1598551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}