{"id":10091,"date":"2019-10-13T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/13\/hope-and-desperation-inspired-hong-kong-anthem-says-composer"},"modified":"2019-10-13T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T06:20:41","slug":"hope-and-desperation-inspired-hong-kongs-national-anthem-says-incognito-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10091","title":{"rendered":"Hope and desperation inspired Hong Kong\u2019s \u2018national anthem\u2019, says incognito composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City needed a protest song to unite it, says the anonymous writer behind the tune sweeping the barricades<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra wear hard hats and gas masks, the choir emerges from a swirl of tear gas-like smoke, and as the music swells, cutaway shots show crowds thousands-strong marching through the streets of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The video is for the song Glory to Hong Kong<em>,<\/em> which was written as a protester anthem but has become something even bigger for many residents \u2013 a kind of national anthem for a city that never had one.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/13\/hope-and-desperation-inspired-hong-kong-anthem-says-composer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City needed a protest song to unite it, says the anonymous writer behind the tune sweeping the barricadesThe orchestra wear hard hats and gas masks, the choir emerges from a swirl of tear gas-like smoke, and as the music swells, cutaway shots show crow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,48,425,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-hong-kong","category-music","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions\/10092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}