{"id":25185,"date":"2020-11-28T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T01:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/28\/thai-protesters-flood-street-with-rubber-ducks-in-coup-prevention-drill"},"modified":"2020-11-28T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T01:46:21","slug":"thai-protesters-flood-street-with-rubber-ducks-in-coup-prevention-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25185","title":{"rendered":"Thai protesters flood street with rubber ducks in &#8216;coup prevention&#8217; drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands block major Bangkok junction in continuing protests against government and monarchy<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of democracy activists blocked a major junction in Bangkok for several hours on Friday to rehearse \u201ccoup prevention\u201d strategies in the latest round of Thailand\u2019s anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>The country has for months been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/25\/seven-thai-activists-face-charges-of-insulting-king-on-eve-of-mass-protest\">rocked by youth-led protests<\/a> demanding a new constitution, reform of the untouchable monarchy and for the prime minister, Prayut Chan-O-Cha, to resign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/28\/thai-protesters-flood-street-with-rubber-ducks-in-coup-prevention-drill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands block major Bangkok junction in continuing protests against government and monarchyThousands of democracy activists blocked a major junction in Bangkok for several hours on Friday to rehearse \u201ccoup prevention\u201d strategies in the latest round o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-protest","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185\/revisions\/25186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}