{"id":18968,"date":"2020-06-04T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/tiananmen-square-witnesses-remember-an-air-of-celebration-and-then-orwellian-silence"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:57:14","slug":"tiananmen-square-witnesses-remember-an-air-of-celebration-and-then-orwellian-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18968","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Square witnesses remember an air of celebration, and then &#8216;Orwellian silence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student protesters and journalists in 1989 recall the joy and hope before the crackdown<\/p>\n<p>It was mid-morning in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 1 June, 1989. Someone had turned on a boombox playing 80s disco music, and people began to dance. A young couple spins in a small opening in the crowd. The woman smiles slightly, her eyes almost closed, as her partner in a loose dress shirt and blazer turns her. Around them, people are clapping.<\/p>\n<p>It is a photo that captures a side of the pro-democracy movement often overshadowed by what came after \u2013 the brutal military crackdown<strong> <\/strong>on the evening of 3 June and morning of 4 June. There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/tiananmen-square-witnesses-remember-an-air-of-celebration-and-then-orwellian-silence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student protesters and journalists in 1989 recall the joy and hope before the crackdownIt was mid-morning in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 1 June, 1989. Someone had turned on a boombox playing 80s disco music, and people began to dance. A young couple&#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":[41,50,80,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968","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=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18971,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions\/18971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}