{"id":48463,"date":"2022-09-14T00:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/hong-kong-residents-queue-for-hours-to-pay-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth"},"modified":"2022-09-14T00:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:05:55","slug":"hong-kong-residents-queue-for-hours-to-pay-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48463","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong residents queue for hours to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British consulate in Hong Kong extends opening hours as thousands gather to remember \u2018boss lady\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/live\/2022\/sep\/13\/king-charles-iii-northern-ireland-queues-view-queen-coffin-edinburgh-london-live\">Death of the Queen and King Charles\u2019s accession \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was the hottest day on record for September, yet under a sweltering sun, thousands of Hongkongers flocked to the British consulate, waiting up to four hours in a long queue that stretched more than 500 metres into a public park to sign the book of condolence for Queen Elizabeth II. The next day, thousands turned up again, prompting the consulate to extend opening hours to 7pm for the whole week.<\/p>\n<p>Many came to eulogise the \u2018boss lady\u2019 \u2013 an affectionate nickname for the Queen who was Hong Kong\u2019s colonial head of state for 45 years \u2013 while also cherishing the opportunity to meet like-minded Hongkongers and share their memories of the city under British rule during the long wait.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/hong-kong-residents-queue-for-hours-to-pay-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British consulate in Hong Kong extends opening hours as thousands gather to remember \u2018boss lady\u2019Death of the Queen and King Charles\u2019s accession \u2013 live updatesIt was the hottest day on record for September, yet under a sweltering sun, thousands of Hongk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,48,1611,2757,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-monarchy","category-queen-elizabeth-ii","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48463","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48464,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48463\/revisions\/48464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}