{"id":21755,"date":"2020-08-17T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/thousands-call-for-reforms-to-monarchy-in-bangkok-protests"},"modified":"2020-08-17T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:29:14","slug":"pro-democracy-movement-draws-thousands-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21755","title":{"rendered":"Pro-democracy movement draws thousands in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly student protesters demand dissolution of parliament, with some calling for reforms to the monarchy<\/p>\n<p>At least 10,000 demonstrators, mostly students, gathered at Bangkok\u2019s democracy monument on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/thailand-protesters-openly-criticise-monarchy-harry-potter-themed-rally\">as they stepped up their demands for political change,<\/a> and some called for reforms to the monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was one of the biggest since the 2014 coup, and follows a month of almost daily rallies that have drawn support from high school and university students across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/thousands-call-for-reforms-to-monarchy-in-bangkok-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly student protesters demand dissolution of parliament, with some calling for reforms to the monarchyAt least 10,000 demonstrators, mostly students, gathered at Bangkok\u2019s democracy monument on Sunday, as they stepped up their demands for political &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,1611,80,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-monarchy","category-protest","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21756,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions\/21756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}