{"id":23799,"date":"2020-10-14T23:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/thai-pro-democracy-protesters-confront-royal-visit-to-bangkok"},"modified":"2020-10-15T02:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T17:13:22","slug":"thai-pro-democracy-protesters-confront-royal-visit-to-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23799","title":{"rendered":"Thai pro-democracy protesters confront royal visit to Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People call for reforms to monarchy and resignation of prime minister during king\u2019s visit<\/p>\n<p>Thai pro-democracy protesters chanted \u201cmy taxes\u201d and raised a symbolic three-finger salute at a passing royal motorcade in a historic show of defiance against the country\u2019s monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people took to the streets of Bangkok on Wednesday to call for democratic reforms, including curbs on the power and wealth of the monarchy. Royalist supporters mounted counterprotests, saying they had assembled to welcome King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who is attending a ceremony in Bangkok to mark the end of Buddhist Lent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/thai-pro-democracy-protesters-confront-royal-visit-to-bangkok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People call for reforms to monarchy and resignation of prime minister during king\u2019s visitThai pro-democracy protesters chanted \u201cmy taxes\u201d and raised a symbolic three-finger salute at a passing royal motorcade in a historic show of defiance against the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1622,"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-23799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-protest","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799","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\/1622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23811,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799\/revisions\/23811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}