{"id":12139,"date":"2019-12-14T22:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/14\/thailand-sees-biggest-anti-government-protest-since-2014-coup"},"modified":"2019-12-14T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:26:47","slug":"bangkok-stages-biggest-anti-government-protest-since-2014-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12139","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok stages biggest anti-government protest since 2014 coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand demonstration called in response to ban on Future Forward opposition party<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people joined Bangkok\u2019s biggest protest since a 2014 coup on Saturday, after authorities in Thailand moved to ban a party that has rallied opposition to the government of former military ruler Prayuth Chan-ocha.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, called a day earlier by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/01\/thanathorn-juangroongruangkit-thai-tycoon-trying-to-take-on-the-junta\">Future Forward party leader, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/01\/thanathorn-juangroongruangkit-thai-tycoon-trying-to-take-on-the-junta\">Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit<\/a>, a 41-year-old billionaire, revived memories of the spasms of street protest that have roiled Bangkok over the past two decades of turbulent politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/14\/thailand-sees-biggest-anti-government-protest-since-2014-coup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand demonstration called in response to ban on Future Forward opposition partyThousands of people joined Bangkok\u2019s biggest protest since a 2014 coup on Saturday, after authorities in Thailand moved to ban a party that has rallied opposition to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,80,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-protest","category-thailand","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\/12139","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12150,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}