{"id":5461,"date":"2019-08-02T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/02\/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-independence-figure-amid-further-protests"},"modified":"2019-08-02T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:11:36","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-independence-figure-amid-further-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5461","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong civil servants protest in defiance of loyalty order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mass walkout from government offices at start of four days of mass demonstrations<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of civil servants in Hong Kong have protested against the government in a rare display of defiance as the city braces for four consecutive days of mass demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The public servants, who are normally politically neutral, defied a government order to remain \u201ctotally loyal\u201d to Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, and crowded into a public park near government offices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/02\/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-independence-figure-amid-further-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass walkout from government offices at start of four days of mass demonstrationsThousands of civil servants in Hong Kong have protested against the government in a rare display of defiance as the city braces for four consecutive days of mass demonstra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/5461","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}