{"id":4518,"date":"2019-07-25T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/25\/hong-kong-braces-for-more-unrest-as-yuen-long-residents-fight-back"},"modified":"2019-07-25T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T02:00:33","slug":"all-hong-kongers-are-scared-protests-to-widen-as-rural-residents-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4518","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;All Hong Kongers are scared&#8217;: protests to widen as rural residents fight back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sleepy town of Yuen Long becomes battleground after suspected gangster attack on commuters <\/p>\n<p>Yuen Long, a quiet residential area close to the Chinese border, has become the unlikely next battleground of Hong Kong\u2019s protest movement.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last seven weeks, demonstrators have planned rallies across the territory \u2013 in parks, along main roads, in the airport and outside government offices \u2013 calling for the withdrawal of an extradition bill and making other political demands. But Yuen Long, known as one of the more remote, isolated areas in the north-west, had never been on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/25\/hong-kong-braces-for-more-unrest-as-yuen-long-residents-fight-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleepy town of Yuen Long becomes battleground after suspected gangster attack on commuters Yuen Long, a quiet residential area close to the Chinese border, has become the unlikely next battleground of Hong Kong\u2019s protest movement.Over the last seven we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/4518","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\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4563,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/4563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}