{"id":11415,"date":"2019-11-22T22:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/hong-kong-university-siege-continues-as-city-prepares-for-election"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:40:33","slug":"hong-kong-university-siege-continues-as-city-prepares-for-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11415","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong university siege continues as city prepares for election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medics warn of humanitarian crisis as protesters trapped inside campus for sixth day<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s university siege stretched into a sixth day on Friday, as medics warned of a humanitarian crisis and the city prepared for weekend elections that will be a key barometer of public support for protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The new police chief, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3038305\/incoming-police-chief-chris-tang-tells-hongkongers\">sworn in on Tuesday<\/a> after the Polytechnic University had already been sealed off, is apparently trying to avoid more violent confrontation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/hong-kong-university-siege-continues-as-city-prepares-for-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medics warn of humanitarian crisis as protesters trapped inside campus for sixth dayHong Kong\u2019s university siege stretched into a sixth day on Friday, as medics warned of a humanitarian crisis and the city prepared for weekend elections that will be a &#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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11415","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\/11415","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=11415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11416,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions\/11416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}