{"id":48678,"date":"2022-09-20T22:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/20\/hong-kong-arrests-harmonica-player-at-queen-vigil-for-sedition"},"modified":"2022-09-20T22:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:49:40","slug":"hong-kong-arrests-harmonica-player-at-queen-vigil-for-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48678","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong arrests harmonica player at Queen vigil for sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man played British national anthem and pro-democracy protest song to crowds gathered during funeral<\/p>\n<p>A Hongkonger who played a harmonica to a crowd outside the British consulate during Elizabeth II\u2019s funeral was arrested for sedition, according to police and local media<\/p>\n<p>Crowds of Hongkongers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/hong-kong-residents-queue-for-hours-to-pay-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth\">have queued to pay tribute to Britain\u2019s late monarch this week<\/a>, some expressing nostalgia for the city\u2019s colonial past at a time when Beijing is seeking to purge dissent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/20\/hong-kong-arrests-harmonica-player-at-queen-vigil-for-sedition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man played British national anthem and pro-democracy protest song to crowds gathered during funeralA Hongkonger who played a harmonica to a crowd outside the British consulate during Elizabeth II\u2019s funeral was arrested for sedition, according to police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"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":[41,48,2757,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","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\/48678","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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678\/revisions\/48679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}