{"id":11422,"date":"2019-11-23T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/23\/bougainville-referendum-voting-begins-amid-scenes-of-jubilation"},"modified":"2019-11-23T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T04:02:16","slug":"bougainville-referendum-voting-begins-amid-scenes-of-jubilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11422","title":{"rendered":"Bougainville referendum: voting begins amid scenes of jubilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are \u2018in the mood for celebration\u2019 as they choose whether to split from Papua New Guinea <\/p>\n<p>After 20 years, the big day has finally arrived for the people of Bougainville. Large crowds gathered on Saturday at the aptly named Bel Isi (Peace) park in Buka for the first day of a two-week referendum to decide whether the archipelago should become independent from Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a significant security presence, hundreds of Bougainvilleans marched through the streets as they followed the autonomous region\u2019s president, John Momis, as he arrived at a polling booth to cast his vote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/23\/bougainville-referendum-voting-begins-amid-scenes-of-jubilation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are \u2018in the mood for celebration\u2019 as they choose whether to split from Papua New Guinea After 20 years, the big day has finally arrived for the people of Bougainville. Large crowds gathered on Saturday at the aptly named Bel Isi (Peace) park in &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","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=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions\/11423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}