{"id":50181,"date":"2022-11-14T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T02:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/14\/glory-to-hong-kong-protest-song-played-instead-of-china-national-anthem-rugby-sevens-game-south-korea"},"modified":"2022-11-15T00:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:19:31","slug":"hong-kong-calls-for-investigation-after-protest-song-replaced-chinese-national-anthem-at-rugby-sevens-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50181","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong criticises rugby tournament after protest song is played instead of Chinese anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glory to Hong Kong, linked to 2019 protest movement, played in South Korean stadium at start of rugby sevens game<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government has strongly criticised a rugby sevens tournament after a song from the city\u2019s protest movement was played in place of the Chinese national anthem during a match in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong said it \u201cstrongly deplores and opposes\u201d the playing of a song associated with \u201cviolent protests\u201d and the pro-independence movement in 2019, when the Chinese national anthem, March of the Volunteers, should have been played.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/14\/glory-to-hong-kong-protest-song-played-instead-of-china-national-anthem-rugby-sevens-game-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glory to Hong Kong, linked to 2019 protest movement, played in South Korean stadium at start of rugby sevens gameHong Kong\u2019s government has strongly criticised a rugby sevens tournament after a song from the city\u2019s protest movement was played in place &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3075,"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":[41,50,48,2270,222,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-rugby-sevens","category-south-korea","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50181","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\/3075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50213,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50181\/revisions\/50213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}