{"id":37307,"date":"2021-09-25T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/everything-has-exploded-now-on-the-streets-with-thailands-protesters"},"modified":"2021-09-25T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:00:23","slug":"everything-has-exploded-now-on-the-streets-with-thailands-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37307","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everything has exploded now\u2019: on the streets with Thailand\u2019s protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past month, Bangkok\u2019s Din Daeng intersection has been a battleground between police and protesters, angry at economic, health and rights crisis<\/p>\n<p>Every few days, after finishing his online college classes, Chai* prepares to join protests in Bangkok. He takes a bandana to cover his face, material to obscure his motorbike licence plate, a helmet, and often a ping pong bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The home made device, in which stones are wrapped up with firework powder will either be thrown at police as a provocation or used as a distraction when he and his friends are being chased by officers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/everything-has-exploded-now-on-the-streets-with-thailands-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past month, Bangkok\u2019s Din Daeng intersection has been a battleground between police and protesters, angry at economic, health and rights crisisEvery few days, after finishing his online college classes, Chai* prepares to join protests in Bangko&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37307","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37308,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37307\/revisions\/37308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}