{"id":6020,"date":"2019-08-06T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-riot-police-fire-teargas-at-protesters-as-two-cars-ram-crowds"},"modified":"2019-08-06T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:20:00","slug":"hong-kong-protests-descend-into-chaos-during-citywide-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6020","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests descend into chaos during citywide strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police fire teargas and rubber bullets in clashes with thousands of demonstrators<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> protesters have clashed with police and fought off a group of men armed with poles as the city\u2019s political unrest continues.<\/p>\n<p>A citywide strike accompanied by rallies in seven districts descended into chaos on Monday evening as thousands of protesters fanned out across the city, occupying roads, disrupting traffic, and vandalising police stations and other public buildings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-riot-police-fire-teargas-at-protesters-as-two-cars-ram-crowds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police fire teargas and rubber bullets in clashes with thousands of demonstratorsHong Kong protesters have clashed with police and fought off a group of men armed with poles as the city\u2019s political unrest continues.A citywide strike accompanied by rall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"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":[41,555,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/6020","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\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}