{"id":8322,"date":"2019-09-01T04:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/31\/hong-kong-revolution-no-war-is-without-bloodshed-protesters"},"modified":"2019-09-01T04:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T19:45:55","slug":"hong-kong-revolution-is-war-and-no-war-is-without-bloodshed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8322","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: \u2018Revolution is war, and no war is without bloodshed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anger is rising as the state crackdown intensifies, and protesters say they are prepared for confrontation and sacrifice<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Lee, a 27-year-old computer engineer, only started taking part in Hong Kong\u2019s demonstrations in June. Since then, it has been a steep learning curve.<\/p>\n<p>He has tackled a police officer to the ground to rescue another protester, tossed teargas canisters back at the police and covered the gas grenades with the metal dishes commonly used in Hong Kong for steaming fish.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/31\/hong-kong-revolution-no-war-is-without-bloodshed-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger is rising as the state crackdown intensifies, and protesters say they are prepared for confrontation and sacrificeRyan Lee, a 27-year-old computer engineer, only started taking part in Hong Kong\u2019s demonstrations in June. Since then, it has been a&#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-8322","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\/8322","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=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8330,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}