{"id":11181,"date":"2021-01-21T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118685\/coronavirus-hong-kongs-annual-lunar-new-year-night"},"modified":"2021-01-21T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:57:34","slug":"coronavirus-hong-kongs-annual-lunar-new-year-night-parade-to-be-replaced-by-online-shopping-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/coronavirus-hong-kongs-annual-lunar-new-year-night-parade-to-be-replaced-by-online-shopping-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Hong Kong\u2019s annual Lunar New Year night parade to be replaced by online shopping platform"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s annual Lunar New Year night parade will be replaced with an online shopping portal, organisers have announced, as social-distancing rules amid the ongoing fourth wave of coronavirus infections prompt more muted celebrations to welcome the Year of the Ox.The Lunar New Year night parade \u2013 first held in 1996, and usually a vibrant cultural event showcasing an array of international performances \u2013 will not be held in Tsim Sha Tsui for the second year in a row. Instead, it will be\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118685\/coronavirus-hong-kongs-annual-lunar-new-year-night\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s annual Lunar New Year night parade will be replaced with an online shopping portal, organisers have announced, as social-distancing rules amid the ongoing fourth wave of coronavirus infections prompt more muted celebrations to welcome the Y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11242,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}