{"id":41159,"date":"2022-01-29T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/29\/our-culture-has-changed-young-thais-boycott-graduation-ceremonies"},"modified":"2022-01-29T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T04:15:44","slug":"our-culture-has-changed-young-thais-boycott-graduation-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41159","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our culture has changed\u2019: young Thais boycott graduation ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students who speak out against royal family\u2019s role in universities face jail but can also be pressured by pro-monarchy parents<\/p>\n<p>When 24-year-old Krai Saidee returned to his alma mater Chiang Mai University on 14 January, nearly two years after his graduation, he came not just to support his friends but to make a political statement.<\/p>\n<p>Painted gold, he held up a sign attached to a graduation gown: \u201cYou took my dream, and gave me this,\u201d the message read.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/29\/our-culture-has-changed-young-thais-boycott-graduation-ceremonies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students who speak out against royal family\u2019s role in universities face jail but can also be pressured by pro-monarchy parentsWhen 24-year-old Krai Saidee returned to his alma mater Chiang Mai University on 14 January, nearly two years after his gradua&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2846,"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":[41,80,93,694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-protest","category-thailand","category-universities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159","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\/2846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159\/revisions\/41160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}