{"id":7510,"date":"2019-08-22T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/21\/hong-kong-protesters-clash-riot-police-metro-station"},"modified":"2019-08-22T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:43:08","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-clash-with-riot-police-at-metro-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7510","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters clash with riot police at metro station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peaceful rally descends into skirmishes as objects thrown and makeshift barriers erected<\/p>\n<p>A peaceful rally at a metro station in Hong Kong descended into a clash between protesters and police as the city entered the 11th week of anti-government demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people took part in a sit-in at the out-of-town Yuen Long metro station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/21\/china-hong-kong-family-voice-fears-for-detained-uk-consulate-worker\">earlier on Wednesday<\/a> in protest at a violent and indiscriminate attack on commuters and protesters there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/22\/where-were-the-police-hong-kong-outcry-after-masked-thugs-launch-attack\">a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/21\/hong-kong-protesters-clash-riot-police-metro-station\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peaceful rally descends into skirmishes as objects thrown and makeshift barriers erectedA peaceful rally at a metro station in Hong Kong descended into a clash between protesters and police as the city entered the 11th week of anti-government demonstra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/7510","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7511,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}