{"id":20697,"date":"2020-07-19T01:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/18\/thousands-of-anti-government-protesters-rally-in-thailands-capital"},"modified":"2020-07-19T01:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:05:57","slug":"thousands-of-anti-government-protesters-rally-in-thailands-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20697","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of anti-government protesters rally in Thailand&#8217;s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators call for new constitution, new elections and end to repressive laws<\/p>\n<p>Several thousand anti-government protesters rallied in Thailand\u2019s capital on Saturday to call for a new constitution, new elections and an end to repressive laws.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting and waving placards, the demonstrators, comprising mainly young Thais, converged on Bangkok\u2019s iconic Democracy Monument in the old part of the city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/18\/thousands-of-anti-government-protesters-rally-in-thailands-capital\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators call for new constitution, new elections and end to repressive lawsSeveral thousand anti-government protesters rallied in Thailand\u2019s capital on Saturday to call for a new constitution, new elections and an end to repressive laws.Chanting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"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-20697","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\/20697","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\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20698,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions\/20698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}