{"id":6911,"date":"2019-08-13T00:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/closure-of-hong-kong-airport-shines-fresh-light-on-protest-movement"},"modified":"2019-08-13T00:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:16:26","slug":"closure-of-hong-kong-airport-shines-fresh-light-on-protest-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6911","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Hong Kong airport shines fresh light on protest movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disruption on Monday stopped flights to UK, US and Australia and will be felt worldwide<\/p>\n<p>The closure of Hong Kong international airport has shone a fresh global spotlight on the city\u2019s protest movement.<\/p>\n<p>The airport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-airport-authority-cancels-flights-over-protests\">was forced to cancel all remaining passenger flights on Monday<\/a> \u2013 more than 100 \u2013 after thousands of demonstrators flooded into the main terminal during the afternoon. The disruption will be felt worldwide, with cancellations including long-haul departures to the US, Australia and the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/closure-of-hong-kong-airport-shines-fresh-light-on-protest-movement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disruption on Monday stopped flights to UK, US and Australia and will be felt worldwideThe closure of Hong Kong international airport has shone a fresh global spotlight on the city\u2019s protest movement.The airport was forced to cancel all remaining passe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"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":[376,41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/6911","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\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}