{"id":10539,"date":"2019-10-29T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/hong-kongs-reluctant-policeman-its-not-for-us-to-deliver-punishment"},"modified":"2019-10-29T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:00:18","slug":"hong-kongs-reluctant-police-officer-its-not-for-us-to-deliver-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10539","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s reluctant police officer: &#8216;It&rsquo;s not for us to deliver punishment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle with protesters is splitting the police force between those seeking power and others protecting freedoms<\/p>\n<p>Larry Yeung* cuts a lonely figure in the police force these days.<\/p>\n<p>He joined more than 20 years ago because it appealed to his sense of justice. Proudly showing off his graduation tie, he reminisces about his desire as a young recruit to serve society and help the disadvantaged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/hong-kongs-reluctant-policeman-its-not-for-us-to-deliver-punishment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle with protesters is splitting the police force between those seeking power and others protecting freedomsLarry Yeung* cuts a lonely figure in the police force these days.He joined more than 20 years ago because it appealed to his sense of jus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/10539","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10541,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}