{"id":11372,"date":"2019-11-22T08:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/bougainville-prepares-for-independence-vote-referendum"},"modified":"2019-11-22T08:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:32:49","slug":"weve-wanted-this-for-a-long-time-bougainville-prepares-for-independence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11372","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;ve wanted this for a long time&#8217;: Bougainville prepares for independence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archipelago\u2019s flags replace Papua New Guinean ones on government buildings ahead of voting in referendum<\/p>\n<p>Bougainville will head to the polls tomorrow to decide whether the region will seek independence from Papua New Guinea and become the world\u2019s newest country, in a referendum that has been 20 years in the making.<\/p>\n<p>The small archipelago of islands about 700km east of mainland Papua New Guinea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/birth-of-a-nation-bougainvilles-referendum-explained\">will hold a referendum that its people have been looking forward to since the ceasefire<\/a> that ended a brutal civil war in 1998 and the signing of the Bougainville Peace Agreement in 2001.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/bougainville-prepares-for-independence-vote-referendum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archipelago\u2019s flags replace Papua New Guinean ones on government buildings ahead of voting in referendumBougainville will head to the polls tomorrow to decide whether the region will seek independence from Papua New Guinea and become the world\u2019s newest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"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":[41,945,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/11372","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions\/11373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}