{"id":12977,"date":"2021-06-25T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2021-06-25T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:00:11","slug":"chinas-vincent-van-gogh-rubbish-collector-who-taught-himself-to-paint-finds-fame-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12977","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Vincent van Gogh: rubbish collector who taught himself to paint finds fame on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn impoverished rag picker in southeastern China has been hailed as the country\u2019s Vincent van Gogh after images of his paintings appeared on social media.Wei Guangming, who is self-taught, only started painting in 2016. The 48-year-old migrant worker\u2019s full-time job is riding a pedicab through streets of Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, to collect rubbish like cardboard boxes and electrical appliances, to sell to a recycling factory.He earns about 5,000 yuan (US$772) a month from collecting rubbish\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/china-personalities\/article\/3138600\/chinas-vincent-van-gogh-rubbish-collector?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn impoverished rag picker in southeastern China has been hailed as the country\u2019s Vincent van Gogh after images of his paintings appeared on social&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}