{"id":10782,"date":"2019-11-05T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T04:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/hong-kong-protest-themed-cake-disqualified-from-uk-baking-contest"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T04:33:20","slug":"flour-power-hong-kong-protest-themed-cake-disqualified-from-uk-baking-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10782","title":{"rendered":"Flour power: Hong Kong protest-themed cake disqualified from UK baking contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creator claims cake was victim of political censorship after attendees at Cake International show threatened to damage it<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong protest-themed cake has become the latest cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre of the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/hong-kong-protests-chinese-state-media-urges-tougher-stance-on-wanton-violence\">five-month political crisis<\/a> after it was disqualified from a cake decorating competition in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The three-tiered cake features a mini black-clad protester in a yellow hard hat, a large Guy Fawkes mask, tiny umbrellas and mini political slogans \u2013 all symbols of the ongoing protests. It even has a miniature black LP record playing the unofficial anthem of the protest, Glory to Hong Kong, and emits a vapour designed to look like tear gas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/hong-kong-protest-themed-cake-disqualified-from-uk-baking-contest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creator claims cake was victim of political censorship after attendees at Cake International show threatened to damage itA Hong Kong protest-themed cake has become the latest cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre of the city\u2019s five-month political crisis after it was disquali&#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":[41,898,311,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-baking","category-food","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\/10782","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=10782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions\/10783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}