{"id":22857,"date":"2020-09-19T19:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T10:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/19\/thousands-gather-in-thailand-for-anti-government-protest-bangkok"},"modified":"2020-09-20T00:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T15:18:04","slug":"thousands-gather-in-thailand-for-anti-government-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22857","title":{"rendered":"Thousands gather in Thailand for anti-government protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in Bangkok call for new constitution and elections, and criticise monarchy<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people gathered in Bangkok for a major rally on Saturday, demanding the resignation of Thailand\u2019s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, and reforms to the monarchy \u2013 an institution until recently considered beyond direct public criticism.<\/p>\n<p>A grassroots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/we-want-a-true-democracy-students-lead-thailands-protest-movement\">pro-democracy movement<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/we-want-a-true-democracy-students-lead-thailands-protest-movement\"> led by students<\/a> has swept across the country, upending decades of convention within months. Protesters have called for a range of democratic reforms, with some groups, including the organisers of Saturday\u2019s rally, demanding the king\u2019s powers and budget be curbed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/19\/thousands-gather-in-thailand-for-anti-government-protest-bangkok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in Bangkok call for new constitution and elections, and criticise monarchyTens of thousands of people gathered in Bangkok for a major rally on Saturday, demanding the resignation of Thailand\u2019s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, and reforms t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"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-22857","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\/22857","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22859,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions\/22859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}