{"id":11456,"date":"2019-11-24T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/hong-kong-protests-prompt-huge-turnout-for-local-elections"},"modified":"2019-11-24T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T08:07:37","slug":"hong-kong-protests-prompt-huge-turnout-for-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11456","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: protests prompt huge turnout for local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents stand in long queues to have their say in polls expected to be a proxy referendum on pro-democracy campaign<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong residents have turned out in unprecedented numbers for local elections that many in the city are treating as a proxy referendum on months of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>Hour-long queues stretched outside many polling stations and by early afternoon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.gov.hk\/dc2019\/eng\/turnout.html\">more than 1.5 million<\/a> people had voted, exceeding the total ballots cast in the 2015 elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/hong-kong-protests-prompt-huge-turnout-for-local-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents stand in long queues to have their say in polls expected to be a proxy referendum on pro-democracy campaignHong Kong residents have turned out in unprecedented numbers for local elections that many in the city are treating as a proxy referend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11457,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions\/11457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}