{"id":55271,"date":"2023-05-19T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/19\/rukchanok-srinork-thailand-giant-killing-mp-ice-election-upset"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:00:14","slug":"were-starting-a-new-era-thailands-giant-killing-mp-ice-on-her-election-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55271","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re starting a new era\u2019: Thailand\u2019s giant-killing MP Ice on her election upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rukchanok Srinork is a former pro-democracy activist who joined street protests against the military establishment<\/p>\n<p>At the small Bangkok shophouse that Rukchanok Srinork uses as an office, the floor is cluttered with stacks of campaign signs and leaflets. There are bottles of Fanta and fruit donated by her supporters (orange is her party\u2019s colour). And, by the entrance stand her team\u2019s well-known bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>Rukchanok, also known as Ice, is one of many young MPs with the progressive Move Forward party, which stunned observers by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/15\/thailand-election-2023-national-elections-opposition-parties-crushing-blow-military-rule-junta\">taking the most seats in last Sunday\u2019s election<\/a> in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/19\/rukchanok-srinork-thailand-giant-killing-mp-ice-election-upset\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rukchanok Srinork is a former pro-democracy activist who joined street protests against the military establishmentAt the small Bangkok shophouse that Rukchanok Srinork uses as an office, the floor is cluttered with stacks of campaign signs and leaflets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","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\/55271","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\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55271\/revisions\/55272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}