{"id":73370,"date":"2025-03-15T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73370"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T18:32:47","slug":"the-real-life-mermaids-forced-into-slavery-how-female-swimmers-are-lured-to-china-and-forced-to-dive-70-times-a-day-in-aquarium-tanks-after-performer-was-attacked-by-giant-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/the-real-life-mermaids-forced-into-slavery-how-female-swimmers-are-lured-to-china-and-forced-to-dive-70-times-a-day-in-aquarium-tanks-after-performer-was-attacked-by-giant-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"The real-life mermaids forced into &#8216;slavery&#8217;: How female swimmers are lured to China and forced to dive 70 times a day in aquarium tanks &#8211; after performer was attacked by giant fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/14\/11\/95956061-14473803-image-m-29_1741952677911.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For most, the idea of being a mermaid conjures up images of fantasy and wonder -graceful swimmers gliding through the water, dazzling audiences with shimmering tails and choreographed routines.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14473803\/The-real-life-mermaids-forced-slavery-female-swimmers-lured-China-forced-dive-70-times-day-aquarium-tanks-performer-attacked-giant-fish.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>For most, the idea of being a mermaid conjures up images of fantasy and wonder -graceful swimmers gliding through the water, dazzling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mermaids-Russia.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73372,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370\/revisions\/73372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}