{"id":20569,"date":"2020-07-15T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T02:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/15\/the-new-hong-kong-where-activists-vow-to-defy-rule-by-fear"},"modified":"2020-07-15T23:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:14:43","slug":"the-new-hong-kong-where-activists-vow-to-defy-rule-by-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20569","title":{"rendered":"The new Hong Kong, where activists vow to defy &#8216;rule by fear&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atmosphere in city has changed dramatically as newly imposed security laws loom large<\/p>\n<p>Everything looked as though it was business as usual in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong\u2019s bustling shopping district.<\/p>\n<p>Amid swathes of shoppers, flags emblazoned with images of pro-democracy politicians fluttered in the hot summer air. Politicians yelled into microphones, urging people to vote for them in an unofficial poll to choose candidates to run in the Legislative Council (LegCo) election in September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/15\/the-new-hong-kong-where-activists-vow-to-defy-rule-by-fear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atmosphere in city has changed dramatically as newly imposed security laws loom largeEverything looked as though it was business as usual in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong\u2019s bustling shopping district.Amid swathes of shoppers, flags emblazoned with images of &#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-20569","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\/20569","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=20569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20591,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions\/20591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}