{"id":18788,"date":"2008-08-12T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2008\/08\/to-beijing-and-back-episode-five-visiting-tiananmen-square-and-the-forbidden-city\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T17:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T00:19:33","slug":"to-beijing-and-back-episode-five-visiting-tiananmen-square-and-the-forbidden-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/to-beijing-and-back-episode-five-visiting-tiananmen-square-and-the-forbidden-city\/","title":{"rendered":"To Beijing and Back, Episode 5: Visiting Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX, Arizona, August 12. THE next episode of To Beijing and Back<\/i> takes viewers through Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.<\/p>\n

Host Brent Rutemiller details the artwork, the size and scope of the gates surrounding Tiananmen Square and how it protected the Forbidden City from attack when invaders would try to enter. Rutemiller says it took 14 years to build the Forbidden City in the 15th century, using 1 million workers. Other buildings in the square include the Hall of the People, which can seat 10,000 people, and other buildings for state functions.<\/p>\n