{"id":128949,"date":"2020-01-23T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/23\/from-loo-roll-to-dumplings-hong-kong-protesters-weaponise-purchasing-power\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:19:09","slug":"from-loo-roll-to-dumplings-hong-kong-protesters-weaponise-purchasing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128949","title":{"rendered":"From loo roll to dumplings: Hong Kong protesters weaponise purchasing power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018yellow economic circle\u2019 movement aims to promote locally owned businesses \u2013 and shun Chinese onesEmily Mak works in finance but every lunchtime in the run-up to lunar new year on Saturday she heads to a bustling Hong Kong market street to distribute lai see packets to customers who have ordered them online.Her packets \u2013 red envelopes used to hold a traditional new year gift of money for children \u2013 are emblazoned with pro-democracy messages. The profits of the more than 20,000 packets she has sold will be donated to young protesters experiencing hardship. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/23\/from-loo-roll-to-dumplings-hong-kong-protesters-weaponise-purchasing-power\" target=\"_blank\">From loo roll to dumplings: Hong Kong protesters weaponise purchasing power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018yellow economic circle\u2019 movement aims to promote locally owned businesses \u2013 and shun Chinese onesEmily Mak works in finance but every lunchtime in the run-up to lunar new year on Saturday she heads to a bustling Hong Kong market street to distribute lai see packets to customers who have [&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-128949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128949","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=128949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}