{"id":113467,"date":"2019-10-07T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/07\/hong-kong-protesters-defy-the-mask-ban-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T04:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:01:11","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-defy-the-mask-ban-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=113467","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters defy the mask ban \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masked protesters streamed onto the streets of Hong Kong after the city\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, employed colonial-era emergency powers to outlaw face coverings at protests. Demonstrators defied the emergency regulation that came into force on Saturday, displaying their creativity with a huge variety of masks. The city, meanwhile, ground to a halt. The subway was suspended and swathes of shops and malls shuttered following yet more violence on both sides.Battle for the soul of a city Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2019\/oct\/07\/hong-kong-protesters-defy-the-mask-ban-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong protesters defy the mask ban \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masked protesters streamed onto the streets of Hong Kong after the city\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, employed colonial-era emergency powers to outlaw face coverings at protests. Demonstrators defied the emergency regulation that came into force on Saturday, displaying their creativity with a huge variety of masks. The city, meanwhile, ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}