{"id":9537,"date":"2021-01-18T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3118107\/coronavirus-u-turn-lunar-new-year-flower-markets-causes"},"modified":"2021-01-18T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:00:17","slug":"coronavirus-u-turn-on-lunar-new-year-flower-markets-causes-confusion-for-hong-kong-florists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/coronavirus-u-turn-on-lunar-new-year-flower-markets-causes-confusion-for-hong-kong-florists\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: U-turn on Lunar New Year flower markets causes confusion for Hong Kong florists"},"content":{"rendered":"An expected U-turn by the Hong Kong government to allow Lunar New Year flower markets at traditional major venues has caused confusion among florists, with some saying the reversal is too late as they have already sought alternative locations or changed sales strategy.Politicians across the political divide, however, welcomed the move, although they accused the administration of mishandling the situation and failing to communicate with florists before they cancelled the popular markets to guard\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3118107\/coronavirus-u-turn-lunar-new-year-flower-markets-causes\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expected U-turn by the Hong Kong government to allow Lunar New Year flower markets at traditional major venues has caused confusion among florists, with some saying the reversal is too late as they have already sought alternative locations or change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":920,"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\/9537"}],"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\/920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}