{"id":2257,"date":"2014-12-01T06:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2014-12-01T06:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:37:53","slug":"hong-kong-police-pepper-spray-protesters-as-hundreds-try-to-surround-govt-office-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police pepper spray protesters as hundreds try to surround govt office \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/210219-hong-kong-protest-police\/\">Hong Kong police pepper spray protesters as hundreds try to surround govt office \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Hong Kong police have used pepper spray to prevent hundreds of protesters from encircling the government headquarters, as China\u2019s special administrative region continues to be gripped by demonstrations which began two months ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Demonstrators chanting &#8220;<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Surround government headquarters&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8220;Open the road,<\/em>\u201d as well as\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8220;I want true democracy,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0made their way into the city&#8217;s government neighborhood of Admiralty, where scuffles with police occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Protesters with wooden shields and metal barricades charged police as officers warned them to retreat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Many in the crowd carried umbrellas, which have become a symbol of Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy push, due to providing protection from pepper spray. Others had surgical masks, hard hats, goggles, and construction-style eye protectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police pepper spray protesters as hundreds try to surround govt office \u2014 RT News. Hong Kong police have used pepper spray to prevent hundreds of protesters from encircling the government headquarters, as China\u2019s special administrative region continues to be gripped by demonstrations which began two months ago. Demonstrators chanting &#8220;Surround government headquarters&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0&#8220;Open the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[403,405,483,632,657],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-protests","tag-liberty-2","tag-police","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}