{"id":11386,"date":"2019-11-22T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/how-hong-kongs-local-elections-have-become-a-proxy-vote-on-the-protests"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T02:59:22","slug":"how-hong-kongs-local-elections-have-become-a-proxy-vote-on-the-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11386","title":{"rendered":"How Hong Kong&#8217;s local elections have become a proxy vote on the protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend the government and protest movement claims of public support will be put to the test at the polling booth<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday Hong Kong holds district council elections. Normally a sleepy affair with low turnout, this year they have become a focus of intense interest.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly six months of protests have upended daily life, and the poll is expected to serve as a kind of proxy referendum on the movement and its calls for greater democratic rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/how-hong-kongs-local-elections-have-become-a-proxy-vote-on-the-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend the government and protest movement claims of public support will be put to the test at the polling boothThis Sunday Hong Kong holds district council elections. Normally a sleepy affair with low turnout, this year they have become a focus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/11386","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11387,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}