{"id":28347,"date":"2021-02-12T23:42:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/12\/farmers-protests-india-why-laws-caused-anger"},"modified":"2021-02-12T23:42:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T14:42:21","slug":"farmers-protests-in-india-why-have-new-laws-caused-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28347","title":{"rendered":"Farmers&#8217; protests in India: why have new laws caused anger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands have joined demonstrations against agricultural changes introduced last year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/12\/roaring-crowds-roti-and-rihanna-the-view-from-a-delhi-farm-protest-camp\">Roaring crowds, roti and Rihanna: the view from a Delhi farm protest camp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of farmers, the majority of them Sikh and from the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting against the introduction last September of a series of agricultural laws.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/12\/farmers-protests-india-why-laws-caused-anger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands have joined demonstrations against agricultural changes introduced last yearRoaring crowds, roti and Rihanna: the view from a Delhi farm protest campHundreds of thousands of farmers, the majority of them Sikh and from the northern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/28347","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28350,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347\/revisions\/28350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}