{"id":11635,"date":"2019-11-29T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/29\/thousands-in-hong-kong-praise-trump-with-thanksgiving-rally-as-more-protests-loom"},"modified":"2019-11-29T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:17:49","slug":"thousands-in-hong-kong-praise-trump-with-thanksgiving-rally-as-more-protests-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11635","title":{"rendered":"Thousands in Hong Kong praise Trump with &#8216;Thanksgiving&#8217; rally as more protests loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We really appreciate the effort made by Americans,\u2019 says one protester, as city braces for another weekend of protest<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong, some draped in American flags, have staged a \u201cThanksgiving\u201d rally in the heart of the city after the approval by Donald Trump of human rights legislation aimed at protecting them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rationale for us having this rally is to show our gratitude and thank the US Congress and also president Trump for passing the bill,\u201d said 23-year-old Sunny Cheung, a member of the student group that lobbied for the legislation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/29\/thousands-in-hong-kong-praise-trump-with-thanksgiving-rally-as-more-protests-loom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We really appreciate the effort made by Americans,\u2019 says one protester, as city braces for another weekend of protestThousands of protesters in Hong Kong, some draped in American flags, have staged a \u201cThanksgiving\u201d rally in the heart of the city after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,415,48,80,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635\/revisions\/11636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}