{"id":28721,"date":"2021-02-20T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/20\/myanmar-protesters-democracy-demonstrators"},"modified":"2021-02-20T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:00:34","slug":"we-cant-accept-it-myanmars-public-sector-workers-strike-for-democracy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28721","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We can&#8217;t accept it&#8217;: Myanmar&#8217;s public sector workers strike for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pockets of protesters across the country disperse from rallies to government buildings and housing<\/p>\n<p>As a government worker adjusts her conical hat, protesters move forward with their umbrellas to shield her from the sun. Many of her colleagues on strike against the Myanmar military coup have gone into hiding, but she is sat outside a police barricade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have two children,\u201d says the 34-year-old. \u201cThis is for their future, because if the regime stays in power, there will be no hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/20\/myanmar-protesters-democracy-demonstrators\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pockets of protesters across the country disperse from rallies to government buildings and housingAs a government worker adjusts her conical hat, protesters move forward with their umbrellas to shield her from the sun. Many of her colleagues on strike &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1940,"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":[82,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","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\/28721","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\/1940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28722,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions\/28722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}