{"id":119737,"date":"2019-11-20T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/20\/my-beloved-hong-kong-has-become-a-war-zone-and-daily-life-is-full-of-anxiety\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T01:01:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:01:12","slug":"my-beloved-hong-kong-has-become-a-war-zone-and-daily-life-is-full-of-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=119737","title":{"rendered":"My beloved Hong Kong has become a war zone and daily life is full of anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As another week of violence grips the city, normal life is on hold &#8211; people cannot work, schools are closed, roads are paralysed and children are terrifiedThe ongoing political crisis in Hong Kong is probably the biggest challenge of my life. I don\u2019t remember having lost sleep and appetite and not being able to think about anything else for months on end ever before.Like many other Hongkongers, I have been overwhelmed by an acute sense of helplessness and anxiety during the past five months as I have watched our home descend in to a war zone every few days. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2019\/nov\/20\/my-beloved-hong-kong-has-become-a-war-zone-and-daily-life-is-full-of-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\">My beloved Hong Kong has become a war zone and daily life is full of anxiety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As another week of violence grips the city, normal life is on hold &#8211; people cannot work, schools are closed, roads are paralysed and children are terrifiedThe ongoing political crisis in Hong Kong is probably the biggest challenge of my life. I don\u2019t remember having lost sleep and appetite and [&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-119737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119737","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=119737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}