{"id":41493,"date":"2022-02-08T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/08\/kicking-back-at-the-regime-artists-open-another-front-in-myanmar-war"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T10:30:20","slug":"kicking-back-at-the-regime-artists-open-another-front-in-myanmar-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41493","title":{"rendered":"Kicking back at the regime: artists open another front in Myanmar war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, even from one another<\/p>\n<p>Early one morning last February, a group of young people gathered on a street corner in Myanmar armed with brushes and buckets of paint. In the faint light of dawn, they quickly completed their task and dispersed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt excited and nervous. I was scared too, because I didn\u2019t want to get caught,\u201d says Tu Tu, a pseudonym for the group\u2019s organiser.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/08\/kicking-back-at-the-regime-artists-open-another-front-in-myanmar-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, even from one anotherEarly one morning last February, a group of young people gathered on a street corner in Myanmar armed with brushes and bucke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"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":[546,91,71,59,2533,425,82,1906,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-global-development","category-hip-hop","category-music","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","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\/41493","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41494,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493\/revisions\/41494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}