{"id":83145,"date":"2019-03-07T01:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/07\/a-real-source-of-hope-social-media-opens-thailands-junta-to-criticism\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T01:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:41:57","slug":"a-real-source-of-hope-social-media-opens-thailands-junta-to-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=83145","title":{"rendered":"&#039;A real source of hope&#039;: social media opens Thailand&#039;s junta to criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social platforms wield increasing power in Thai politics, where traditional media remain under the iron grip of the militaryJust over a week ago, Thailand\u2019s army chief began trending on Twitter.It started with an order, made by General Apirat Kongsompong that 160 radio stations across the country must play the 1970s anti-communist propaganda song, Nuk Paen Din (Scum of the Earth) which glorifies the might of the armed forces, on a daily basis. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/07\/a-real-source-of-hope-social-media-opens-thailands-junta-to-criticism\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;A real source of hope&#039;: social media opens Thailand&#039;s junta to criticism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social platforms wield increasing power in Thai politics, where traditional media remain under the iron grip of the militaryJust over a week ago, Thailand\u2019s army chief began trending on Twitter.It started with an order, made by General Apirat Kongsompong that 160 radio stations across the country must play the 1970s [&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-83145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83145","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=83145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}