{"id":24338,"date":"2020-11-01T01:17:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/31\/hugs-sequins-and-rainbows-as-taiwan-enjoys-victory-over-virus"},"modified":"2020-11-01T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:27:17","slug":"hugs-sequins-and-rainbows-as-taiwan-enjoys-victory-over-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24338","title":{"rendered":"Hugs, sequins and rainbows as Taiwan enjoys victory over coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pride march follows national success story in curbing Covid-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<p>At the entrance to Taipei\u2019s Pride march on Saturday, Pearl Jain and Lance Xie held up a sign offering free hugs. Similar placards were waved above the pulsating crowd of 100,000 sweaty and bedazzled party goers crushedalong the parade route.<\/p>\n<p>Xie had recently returned from Melbourne, where 5 million people have just emerged from one of the toughest lockdowns in the world and everyone is trying not to touch each other. It was good to be home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/31\/hugs-sequins-and-rainbows-as-taiwan-enjoys-victory-over-virus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride march follows national success story in curbing Covid-19 pandemicAt the entrance to Taipei\u2019s Pride march on Saturday, Pearl Jain and Lance Xie held up a sign offering free hugs. Similar placards were waved above the pulsating crowd of 100,000 swe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,1066,587,72,859,74,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-economic-policy","category-lgbt-rights","category-pride","category-taiwan","category-technology","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\/24338","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24338\/revisions\/24365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}