{"id":8406,"date":"2010-01-14T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/will_google_start_a_china_boycott.html"},"modified":"2010-01-14T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:50:00","slug":"will-google-start-a-china-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/will-google-start-a-china-boycott.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Google Start a China Boycott?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/34859033\/ns\/health-kids_and_parenting\/\">article<\/a> on the hazardous materials being used in Chinese jewelry and sold to American children and I immediately forwarded it to some friends and relatives who have children and\/or are uncles or aunts.<\/p>\n<p>These are two of the responses I immediately received:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">F&amp;*$@ing country, seriously they suck. We as a nation should just do what <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/google\/will-silicon-valley-go-to-war-with-china.html\">Google did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Why don&#8217;t the idiots stop trading with China overall. First the toothpaste, then toys with magnets, then the milk!!, now this. Are we going to ban product by product?? Wal-Mart is the worst. In their thirst for money, most of their products are from China.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting reference to Google &#8211; and it got me thinking &#8211; will their move be the start of worldwide backlash against China to raise their export quality standards and relax their chokehold over the information the country&#8217;s citizens can access?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an article on the hazardous materials being used in Chinese jewelry and sold to American children and I immediately forwarded it to some friends and relatives who have children and\/or are uncles or aunts. These are two of the responses I immediately received: F&amp;*$@ing country, seriously they suck. We as a nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,196,163,156,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}