{"id":22866,"date":"2020-09-20T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/20\/thai-protesters-demand-removal-of-pm-call-for-general-strike-after-march-blocked"},"modified":"2020-09-20T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T13:42:42","slug":"thai-protesters-demand-removal-of-pm-and-call-for-general-strike-after-march-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22866","title":{"rendered":"Thai protesters call for reform of monarchy and general strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands march to demand curbs on the power and budget of the royal family<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Thai protesters marched near the official residence of the king on Sunday to hand-deliver a letter demanding curbs on the power and budget of the royal family, in one of the boldest challenges to the institution in living memory.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s monarchy has long been considered beyond direct public criticism, but over recent months a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/thailand-protesters-cross-the-rubicon-and-risk-all-to-criticise-the-monarchy\">student-led pro-democracy movement<\/a> has broken deeply ingrained taboos to call for reforms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/20\/thai-protesters-demand-removal-of-pm-call-for-general-strike-after-march-blocked\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands march to demand curbs on the power and budget of the royal familyThousands of Thai protesters marched near the official residence of the king on Sunday to hand-deliver a letter demanding curbs on the power and budget of the royal family, in o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-22866","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\/22866","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22883,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions\/22883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}