{"id":97263,"date":"2019-06-13T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T13:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/13\/mass-street-protests-are-an-expression-of-hong-kongs-identity\/"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T13:47:56","slug":"mass-street-protests-are-an-expression-of-hong-kongs-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=97263","title":{"rendered":"Mass street protests are an expression of Hong Kong&#039;s identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With controls tightening over Chinese society, many Hong Kongers feel the need to protect their right to dissentHong Kong is a city where people have most of the freedoms of a democracy, except the right to choose their own leaders. The city\u2019s last British governor, Chris Patten, described it as a place that enjoyed \u201cliberty without democracy\u201d.That has made protests particularly important as a political tool and expression of Hong Kong identity. Over more than half a century, the people of Hong Kong have taken to the streets to force distant authorities \u2013 first in Britain and later in Beijing \u2013 to reconsider how they govern the city. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/13\/mass-street-protests-are-an-expression-of-hong-kongs-identity\" target=\"_blank\">Mass street protests are an expression of Hong Kong&#039;s identity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With controls tightening over Chinese society, many Hong Kongers feel the need to protect their right to dissentHong Kong is a city where people have most of the freedoms of a democracy, except the right to choose their own leaders. The city\u2019s last British governor, Chris Patten, described it as [&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-97263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97263","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=97263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}