{"id":2866,"date":"2019-07-11T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/11\/its-had-its-day-ugly-scenes-as-drama-descends-on-tongas-beauty-pageant"},"modified":"2019-07-11T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T02:20:10","slug":"its-had-its-day-ugly-scenes-as-drama-descends-on-tongas-beauty-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s had its day&#8217;: ugly scenes as drama descends on Tonga&#8217;s beauty pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual event marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing and racism as women\u2019s leaders call for pageant to be scrapped<\/p>\n<p>The South Pacific nation of Tonga is in uproar after its annual beauty pageant was marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing and racism, prompting calls by women\u2019s rights leaders for the pageant industry to be abandoned altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s Miss Heilala pageant descended into chaos on Friday when the outgoing winner had her microphone cut in the middle of a speech and another woman was allegedly racially abused while delivering the keynote speech.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/11\/its-had-its-day-ugly-scenes-as-drama-descends-on-tongas-beauty-pageant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual event marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing and racism as women\u2019s leaders call for pageant to be scrappedThe South Pacific nation of Tonga is in uproar after its annual beauty pageant was marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,282,280,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-pacific","category-tonga","category-women","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\/2866","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}