{"id":113238,"date":"2020-09-20T23:42:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-multibillion-dollar-shopping-obsession-goes-mainstream-in-china"},"modified":"2020-09-20T23:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:42:21","slug":"a-multibillion-dollar-shopping-obsession-goes-mainstream-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-multibillion-dollar-shopping-obsession-goes-mainstream-in-china","title":{"rendered":"A multibillion-dollar shopping obsession goes mainstream in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-multibillion-dollar-shopping-obsession-goes-mainstream-in-china2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hu is part of a rising class of creators in China who are racing to get in on live-stream shopping, an emerging form of retail that has grown into an industry worth an estimated $66 billion. Although the trend has been part of Chinese internet culture for years, analysts say the coronavirus pandemic has made it mainstream.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A rising class of creators in China are racing to get in on live-stream shopping, an emerging form of retail that has become an estimated $66 billion industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hu is part of a rising class of creators in China who are racing to get in on live-stream shopping, an emerging form of retail that has grown into an industry worth an estimated $66 billion. Although the trend has been part of Chinese internet culture for years, analysts say the coronavirus pandemic has made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}