{"id":29025,"date":"2021-02-27T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/27\/with-vpns-and-fancy-dress-myanmar-youth-fight-turning-back-of-the-clock"},"modified":"2021-02-27T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:00:15","slug":"with-vpns-and-fancy-dress-myanmar-youth-fight-turning-back-of-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29025","title":{"rendered":"With VPNs and fancy dress, Myanmar youth fight &#8216;turning back of the clock&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a generation used to freedoms that have come with democracy, going back to military rule is unthinkable<\/p>\n<p>In the searing afternoon sun, Myo, 21, stood in front of a police barricade near Yangon\u2019s Sule Pagoda \u2013 one of just a handful of protesters to gather at the rallying point on Wednesday. He stood alone, a towel wrapped around his neck to soak up the sweat, and held a sign that read \u201chumanity\u201d in front of the officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military took away my future,\u201d said the digital artist. \u201cMy work can no longer pay me. This country had barely started trying to develop and now it\u2019s 2021. I don\u2019t know what made them think they should stage a coup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/27\/with-vpns-and-fancy-dress-myanmar-youth-fight-turning-back-of-the-clock\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a generation used to freedoms that have come with democracy, going back to military rule is unthinkableIn the searing afternoon sun, Myo, 21, stood in front of a police barricade near Yangon\u2019s Sule Pagoda \u2013 one of just a handful of protesters to ga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1885,"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":[919,82,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","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\/29025","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\/1885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29026,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions\/29026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}