{"id":8353,"date":"2019-09-02T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/02\/denise-ho-hong-kong-has-reached-a-point-of-no-turning-back"},"modified":"2019-09-02T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T22:11:16","slug":"denise-ho-hong-kong-has-reached-a-point-of-no-turning-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8353","title":{"rendered":"Denise Ho: Hong Kong has reached &#8216;a point of no turning back&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cantopop star says city has become a police state as young people fight for their lives <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are officially in a police state,\u201d the Hong Kong Cantopop star and activist Denise Ho told a sold-out audience in Sydney on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Sydney Opera House\u2019s Antidote festival, Ho told an audience of mostly self-identifying Hongkongers that the political upheaval in their home had reached \u201ca point of no turning back\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/02\/denise-ho-hong-kong-has-reached-a-point-of-no-turning-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cantopop star says city has become a police state as young people fight for their lives \u201cWe are officially in a police state,\u201d the Hong Kong Cantopop star and activist Denise Ho told a sold-out audience in Sydney on Sunday night.Speaking at the Sydney &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"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":[41,43,71,678,48,80,355,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-culture","category-festivals","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-sydney","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\/8353","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\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8354,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}