{"id":9803,"date":"2021-01-17T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/01\/in-laos-reform-hopes-peter-out-into-business-as-usual\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T23:09:00","slug":"in-laos-reform-hopes-peter-out-into-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/in-laos-reform-hopes-peter-out-into-business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"In Laos, Reform Hopes Peter Out Into Business as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"The Lao communist party's newly selected General Secretary Thongloun Sisoulith once promised change. Now he sits atop a closed and sclerotic system.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/01\/in-laos-reform-hopes-peter-out-into-business-as-usual\/\">The Diplomat<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lao communist party&#8217;s newly selected General Secretary Thongloun Sisoulith once promised change. Now he sits atop a closed and sclerotic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"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\/9803"}],"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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}