{"id":3869,"date":"2011-04-01T14:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2011-04-01T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:13:01","slug":"april-fools-day-%e6%84%9a%e4%ba%ba%e8%8a%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/april-fools-day-%e6%84%9a%e4%ba%ba%e8%8a%82\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools Day! (\u611a\u4eba\u8282)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/april-fools-day.jpg\" aria-label=\"April Fools Day 150x150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3871\"  alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/april-fools-day-150x150.jpg\"><\/a>Happy April Fools Day, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>April Fools&#8217; Day or \u611a\u4eba\u8282 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarintools.com\/sounds\/yu2.aif\">y\u00fa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarintools.com\/sounds\/ren2.aif\">r\u00e9n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarintools.com\/sounds\/jie2.aif\">ji\u00e9<\/a>) is celebrated in different countries around the world on the April 1st of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools&#8217; Day, April 1st is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day where many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness.<\/p>\n<p>The day is marked by the commission of good humored or funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Revelers of the pseudo holiday find clever or \u806a\u660e\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarintools.com\/sounds\/cong1.aif\">c\u014dng<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarintools.com\/sounds\/ming2.aif\">m\u00edng<\/a>) and ingenious ways to play pranks on those they encounter throughout the day. Some of my favorite pranks include:<\/p>\n<p>1) Wrapping a persons car completely in plastic wrap (good way to keep a roommate from being on time to work).<\/p>\n<p>2) Replacing ice cream bars with bars of soap (the trick is getting the soap cold).<\/p>\n<p>3) And the age-old classic: Messing with the times on clocks to convince people they are late.<\/p>\n<p>If you need some last minute April Fool&#8217;s Day tricks, check out this article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/04\/01\/last-minute-april-fools-day-pranks_n_843555.html#s77387&amp;title=Set_Someones_Clocks\">15 last minute April Fools Pranks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/april-fools-day-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/april-fools-day-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/april-fools-day.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Happy April Fools Day, everyone! April Fools&#8217; Day or \u611a\u4eba\u8282 (y\u00fa r\u00e9n ji\u00e9) is celebrated in different countries around the world on the April 1st of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools&#8217; Day, April 1st is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day where many people play&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/april-fools-day-%e6%84%9a%e4%ba%ba%e8%8a%82\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36228,36227],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-april-fools-day","tag-36227"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}