{"id":127092,"date":"2020-01-10T02:38:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/10\/we-need-more-dreams-taiwans-squad-rallies-youth-ahead-of-election\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T02:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:38:43","slug":"we-need-more-dreams-taiwans-squad-rallies-youth-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=127092","title":{"rendered":"&#039;We need more dreams&#039;: Taiwan&#039;s  &#039;Squad&#039; rallies youth ahead of election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cosplay fan, death metal musician and former special forces officer are among quintet seeking to push politics beyond the China questionLai Ping-yu, 27, is holding her last major campaign rally on the outskirts of Taipei. A rock band plays on stage, lit by swivelling green and purple lights. A huge screen flashes pictures of Lai, styled like an anime character. The audience sways, waving their flags back and forth, while a row of supporters facing the crowd jump up and down to the music.Lai takes the stage. Wearing a blazer, slacks, and tennis shoes with big red ribbons, she says: \u201cPolitics need to bring people hope. We need more dreams and more stories that touch people.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/10\/taiwan-election-squad-youth-china-tsai-ing-wen\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;We need more dreams&#039;: Taiwan&#039;s  &#039;Squad&#039; rallies youth ahead of election<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosplay fan, death metal musician and former special forces officer are among quintet seeking to push politics beyond the China questionLai Ping-yu, 27, is holding her last major campaign rally on the outskirts of Taipei. A rock band plays on stage, lit by swivelling green and purple lights. A huge [&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-127092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127092","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=127092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}