{"id":20749,"date":"2020-03-15T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p086l8jv"},"modified":"2020-03-15T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:03:00","slug":"behind-the-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/03\/15\/behind-the-hong-kong-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Hong Kong protests"},"content":{"rendered":"What motivated the demonstrators on the city\u2019s streets \u2013 and their opponents? It all began as a peace movement to block a piece of legislation. Millions of people came out onto public spaces calling for greater democracy. Protests have ended in violence between protesters and the police. Thousands have been arrested. Laura Westbrook travels to her birthplace to find out what\u2019s behind the protests, which are now continuing on a smaller scale because of the outbreak of coronavirus.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p086l8jv\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What motivated the demonstrators on the city\u2019s streets \u2013 and their opponents? It all began as a peace movement to block a piece of legislation. Millions of people came out onto public spaces calling for greater democracy. Protests have ended in violenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"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\/20749"}],"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\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598634,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20749\/revisions\/1598634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}