{"id":38478,"date":"2019-04-02T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38478"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:22:37","slug":"how-new-england-patriots-had-a-monumental-year-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38478","title":{"rendered":"How New England Patriots had a &#8216;monumental&#8217; year in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>With the man regarded as the greatest quarterback in history among its ranks and having secured a<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/03\/sport\/super-bowl-liii-patriots-rams\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> record-equaling sixth Super Bowl<\/a> this year, it is perhaps little wonder that the New England Patriots is the most popular NFL team in China &#8212; in terms of social media followers at least. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">According to Mailman, a social media agency based in Shanghai which has been working closely with the Patriots, the franchise has enjoyed a &#8220;monumental&#8221; year in the world&#8217;s most populous nation, becoming the first NFL team to hit 500,000 followers on Weibo (a platform similar to Twitter which has around 300 million monthly active users).<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">At its current rate, the Patriots&#8217; social growth is quicker than European soccer giants Manchester United and Barcelona as well as the majority of NBA clubs &#8212; although most of those teams have long had an established social media presence in China giving them less space in which to grow now. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)With the man regarded as the greatest quarterback in history among its ranks and having secured a record-equaling sixth Super Bowl this year, it is perhaps little wonder that the New England Patriots is the most popular NFL team in China &#8212; in terms of social media followers at least. According to Mailman, a social&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}