{"id":2495,"date":"2015-08-30T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/chinese-government-returns-passport-to-ai-weiwei\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:06:18","slug":"chinese-government-returns-passport-to-ai-weiwei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/chinese-government-returns-passport-to-ai-weiwei\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese <b>government<\/b> returns <b>passport<\/b> to Ai Weiwei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chinese <b>government<\/b> returns <b>passport<\/b> to Ai Weiwei<\/strong><br \/>\nLast Wednesday, artist Ai Weiwei Instagrammed a picture of himself holding his Chinese passport, returned to him four years after it was confiscated by the Chinese government. 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