{"id":24041,"date":"2020-10-22T03:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/thailand-prime-minister-may-lift-emergency-measures"},"modified":"2020-10-22T17:31:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T08:31:45","slug":"thailands-prime-minister-may-lift-emergency-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24041","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s prime minister lifts emergency measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayuth Chan-ocha seeks to end conflict but protesters give him deadline to resign<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s prime minister has lifted severe <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/thailand-uses-emergency-decree-to-ban-gatherings-after-bangkok-protests\">emergency measures <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/thailand-uses-emergency-decree-to-ban-gatherings-after-bangkok-protests\">imposed last week<\/a> to halt months of pro-democracy protests that instead sparked even bigger, nationwide rallies against his government and the monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former army general who first came to power in the 2014 coup, said on Wednesday he was moving to de-escalate the situation, adding that the country \u201cmust now step back from the edge of the slippery slope that can easily slide to chaos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/thailand-prime-minister-may-lift-emergency-measures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayuth Chan-ocha seeks to end conflict but protesters give him deadline to resignThailand\u2019s prime minister has lifted severe emergency measures imposed last week to halt months of pro-democracy protests that instead sparked even bigger, nationwide ral&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/24041","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24070,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions\/24070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}