{"id":98429,"date":"2023-09-08T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:44:41","slug":"workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>Two Chinese workers were recently arrested for \u201cirreparably\u201d damaging a section of the Great Wall of China by smashing through it with heavy machinery to create a shortcut.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Great Wall, one of the very few man-made structures visible from space, was built over several centuries from the third century BC. Long sections of the giant structures are still around today and are protected as heritage sites, but that didn\u2019t stop two ignorant workers from simply smashing through a part of it that just happened to be in their way. The two suspects, a 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, were working near the affected area and got tired of having to go around the wall in order to reach their destination. They decided to extend a gap in the centuries-old structure to then drive their excavator straight through, instead of going around.<\/p>\n<p>After being alerted about the damage to the wall, police in Shanxi province followed the tracks left by the excavator straight to the two suspects, who eventually admitted to widening an existing gap in the Great Wall so that their excavator could pass through. Unfortunately, the damage caused to the wall has been described as \u2018irreparable\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The damaged section of the Great Wall is far away from the restored sections that you usually see in photos and that tourists visit, but it is still part of a Unesco  Heritage site. Now it has a dirt road going through it\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"gdVvpHFzqTc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"China\u2019s Great Wall vandalised by workers trying to create a shortcut\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gdVvpHFzqTc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, the two suspects have been criminally detained in accordance with the law, and the case is continuing to be investigated,\u201d Chinese state-controlled media outlet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/two-people-detained-digging-shortcut-great-wall-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CCTV<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ironic how a structure that had endured for centuries and played a central role in the success of several Chinese dynasties couldn\u2019t survive two workers who couldn\u2019t be bothered to go around it.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"4a916ce631e1bd79f3d273ab-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.4&appId=665932603465761\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Chinese workers were recently arrested for \u201cirreparably\u201d damaging a section of the Great Wall of China by smashing through it with heavy machinery to create a shortcut. China\u2019s Great Wall, one of the very few man-made structures visible from space, was built over several centuries from the third century BC. Long sections of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two Chinese workers were recently arrested for \u201cirreparably\u201d damaging a section of the Great Wall of China by smashing through it with heavy machinery to create a shortcut. China\u2019s Great Wall, one of the very few man-made structures visible from space, was built over several centuries from the third century BC. Long sections of the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-08T16:44:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/\",\"name\":\"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-08T16:44:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-08T16:44:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Two Chinese workers were recently arrested for \u201cirreparably\u201d damaging a section of the Great Wall of China by smashing through it with heavy machinery to create a shortcut. China\u2019s Great Wall, one of the very few man-made structures visible from space, was built over several centuries from the third century BC. Long sections of the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2023-09-08T16:44:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/","name":"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg","datePublished":"2023-09-08T16:44:41+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-08T16:44:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/great-wall-gap.jpg","width":750,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/08\/workers-smash-shortcut-through-great-wall-of-china-because-they-got-tired-of-going-around-it\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Workers Smash Shortcut Through Great Wall of China Because They Got Tired of Going Around It"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}