{"id":11590,"date":"2019-11-27T19:59:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/27\/they-surrendered-hong-kong-activists-mull-next-move-as-university-siege-ends"},"modified":"2019-11-27T19:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:59:49","slug":"they-surrendered-hong-kong-activists-mull-next-move-as-university-siege-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11590","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They surrendered&#8217;: Hong Kong activists mull next move as university siege ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A protester recalls conditions inside campus and questions where the movement goes next<\/p>\n<p>It took a lot of courage for Peter Lui to go down the sewage drain \u2013 but he thought it was better than surrendering to the police who had besieged Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Now, instead of celebrating his successful escape a few days ago, he has become despondent. After returning home, he burned all his protective gear and swore he would have nothing to do with the anti-government movement that began almost six months ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/27\/they-surrendered-hong-kong-activists-mull-next-move-as-university-siege-ends\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A protester recalls conditions inside campus and questions where the movement goes nextIt took a lot of courage for Peter Lui to go down the sewage drain \u2013 but he thought it was better than surrendering to the police who had besieged Polytechnic Univer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/11590","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11591,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/11591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}