{"id":11261,"date":"2019-11-19T03:59:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/18\/they-seem-so-helpless-hongkongers-flock-to-aid-besieged-protesters"},"modified":"2019-11-19T03:59:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:59:02","slug":"they-seem-so-helpless-hongkongers-flock-to-aid-besieged-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11261","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They seem so helpless&#8217;: Hongkongers flock to aid besieged protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers and supporters streaming towards Polytechnic University were fearful of what might befall the demonstrators<\/p>\n<p>As hundreds of protesters were trapped inside a university on Monday night, besieged on all sides by riot police, thousands of Hongkongers rose up in protest, filling highways, public squares and bridges trying to get to them.<\/p>\n<p>The streets of the city were turned into a war zone as protesters, alumni, volunteers and other supporters streamed toward Polytechnic University in Kowloon, where anti-government protesters have been under siege for more than 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/18\/they-seem-so-helpless-hongkongers-flock-to-aid-besieged-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers and supporters streaming towards Polytechnic University were fearful of what might befall the demonstratorsAs hundreds of protesters were trapped inside a university on Monday night, besieged on all sides by riot police, thousands of Hongkon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/11261","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}