{"id":9751,"date":"2019-10-05T02:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/oct\/04\/hong-kong-protesters-attack-metro-stations-after-face-mask-ban-video"},"modified":"2019-10-05T02:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:47:39","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-attack-metro-stations-after-face-mask-ban-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9751","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters attack metro stations after face mask ban \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people swept into the streets of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a>&nbsp;for a night of violent protests after the government activated sweeping colonial-era powers for the first time in over half a century, using them to ban face masks. After darkness fell, crowds set fire to two metro stations and vandalised shops and businesses considered pro-China, leading riot police to respond with teargas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/04\/hong-kong-leader-threatens-harsher-crackdown-under-emergency-law\">Violence grips Hong Kong as Lam activates emergency powers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/oct\/04\/hong-kong-protesters-attack-metro-stations-after-face-mask-ban-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people swept into the streets of&nbsp;Hong Kong&nbsp;for a night of violent protests after the government activated sweeping colonial-era powers for the first time in over half a century, using them to ban face masks. After darkness fell, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/9751","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions\/9752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}