{"id":11614,"date":"2019-11-28T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T03:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/28\/bless-this-referendum-bougainville-votes-and-prays-for-independence"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:39:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T03:39:25","slug":"bless-this-referendum-bougainville-votes-and-prays-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11614","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bless this referendum&#8217;: Bougainville votes and prays for independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations as voting begins to decide whether the region will break away from Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n<p>In the coastal town of Buka a solemn procession of people makes its way from the Catholic church to Bel Isi park, where worshippers kneel before a makeshift cross. There is one subject that dominates the prayers in Bougainville today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gathered here this morning in Bel Isi Park to ask you to bless the referendum. May it be peaceful and successful,\u201d says the priest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/28\/bless-this-referendum-bougainville-votes-and-prays-for-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations as voting begins to decide whether the region will break away from Papua New GuineaIn the coastal town of Buka a solemn procession of people makes its way from the Catholic church to Bel Isi park, where worshippers kneel before a makeshift&#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":[41,945,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/11614","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=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}