{"id":2617,"date":"2012-11-27T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ft-agency.com\/wordpress\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2012-11-27T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:05:49","slug":"elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ft-agency.com\/wordpress\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Tribute to Ai Weiwei Sparks Fear of Concert Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chinese bloggers predict fewer concert licenses will go to foreign artists after British singer dedicates his Beijing concert to the dissident artist.<\/h2>\n<p>Chinese bloggers have expressed fears of a slowdown in official approval for live performances in the country after<strong>\u00a0Elton John<\/strong>\u2019s onstage \u201cdedication\u201d of his Beijing concert to dissident artist\u00a0<strong>Ai Weiwei<\/strong>\u00a0on Nov. 25<\/p>\n<p>More At\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/elton-john-tribute-ai-weiwei-393956\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/elton-john-tribute-ai-weiwei-393956<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In my personal opinion:\u00a0I\u00a0think this shows Westerners& Musicians don\u2019t always understand the situation in China and the impact they have. Professionally its annoying because it will be harder to bring in foreign music acts so we miss out on awesome music. [Oliver Blokland]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese bloggers predict fewer concert licenses will go to foreign artists after British singer dedicates his Beijing concert to the dissident artist. Chinese bloggers have expressed fears of a slowdown in official approval for live performances in the country after\u00a0Elton John\u2019s onstage \u201cdedication\u201d of his Beijing concert to dissident artist\u00a0Ai Weiwei\u00a0on Nov. 25 More At\u00a0https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/elton-john-tribute-ai-weiwei-393956 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elton John Tribute to Ai Weiwei Sparks Fear of Concert Crackdown - FTA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ft-agency.com\/wordpress\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Oliver\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Oliver\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f076e4c00545b6ff0cb77e74c9bb28ad\"},\"headline\":\"Elton John Tribute to Ai Weiwei Sparks Fear of Concert Crackdown\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-11-27T12:05:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ft-agency.com\\\/wordpress\\\/elton-john-tribute-to-ai-weiwei-sparks-fear-of-concert-crackdown\\\/\",\"name\":\"Elton John Tribute to Ai Weiwei Sparks Fear of Concert Crackdown - 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