{"id":162715,"date":"2020-10-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/01\/in-my-dreams-im-there-the-exodus-from-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:00:00","slug":"in-my-dreams-im-there-the-exodus-from-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=162715","title":{"rendered":"&#039;In my dreams I&#039;m there&#039;: the exodus from Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s national security law has prompted the exit of people from all walks of life in fear they or their children are at riskJoe Kwong* loves Hong Kong. But he knows he has to leave.A university-educated construction worker in his 30s, he is just one of many Hongkongers who have uprooted their lives in recent months \u2013 or are now planning to \u2013 because of fears over the rapid demise of the rule of law and civil liberties. Hong Kong\u2019s descent into effective Chinese control has been swift, and was cemented in June by the introduction of the national security law, which prohibits acts of secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/in-my-dreams-im-there-the-exodus-from-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;In my dreams I&#039;m there&#039;: the exodus from Hong Kong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s national security law has prompted the exit of people from all walks of life in fear they or their children are at riskJoe Kwong* loves Hong Kong. But he knows he has to leave.A university-educated construction worker in his 30s, he is just one of many Hongkongers 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-162715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162715","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=162715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}