{"id":69427,"date":"2018-11-30T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/30\/belgian-police-fire-water-cannon-amid-fuel-price-protests\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:29:08","slug":"belgian-police-fire-water-cannon-amid-fuel-price-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69427","title":{"rendered":"Belgian police fire water cannon amid fuel price protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels protests come in wake of \u2018yellow vest\u2019 action in France against rising fuel dutyBelgian police fired water cannon in central Brussels on Friday to drive back protesters inspired by France\u2019s \u201cyellow vest\u201d movement who hurled rocks and firecrackers near the prime minister\u2019s office.For nearly three hours, crowds of people complaining about fuel prices and a squeeze on living standards had disrupted traffic and walked the streets in an unauthorised demonstration, largely promoted via social media. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/30\/belgian-police-fire-water-cannons-amid-fuel-price-protests\" target=\"_blank\">Belgian police fire water cannon amid fuel price protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels protests come in wake of \u2018yellow vest\u2019 action in France against rising fuel dutyBelgian police fired water cannon in central Brussels on Friday to drive back protesters inspired by France\u2019s \u201cyellow vest\u201d movement who hurled rocks and firecrackers near the prime minister\u2019s office.For nearly three hours, crowds of people [&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-69427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69427","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=69427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}