{"id":82453,"date":"2018-09-10T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-smart-technology-turning-chinas-illiterate-late-bloomers-into-digital-natives"},"modified":"2018-09-10T03:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T10:02:22","slug":"the-smart-technology-turning-chinas-illiterate-late-bloomers-into-digital-natives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-smart-technology-turning-chinas-illiterate-late-bloomers-into-digital-natives","title":{"rendered":"The smart technology turning China\u2019s illiterate late bloomers into digital natives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-smart-technology-turning-chinas-illiterate-late-bloomers-into-digital-natives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest barriers is illiteracy, particularly among older generations.<\/p>\n<p>But technology is also helping some people overcome their lack of formal education to be a part of the digital revolution.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Up until now, people without an understanding of Chinese characters and the romanised writing system pinyin have been locked out online.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2162413\/smart-technology-turning-chinas-illiterate-late-bloomers-digital\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2162413\/smar...rs-digital<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest barriers is illiteracy, particularly among older generations. But technology is also helping some people overcome their lack of formal education to be a part of the digital revolution. Up until now, people without an understanding of Chinese characters and the romanised writing system pinyin have been locked out online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453","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=82453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}