{"id":11895,"date":"2021-06-14T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2021-06-14T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:45:00","slug":"hong-kong-protests-a-colour-revolution-or-peaceful-demonstrations-hijacked-by-radicals-lets-not-twist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11895","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: a \u2018colour revolution\u2019 or peaceful demonstrations hijacked by radicals? Let\u2019s not twist history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHistory often has several versions of events, depending on which side is telling the story. Two years on, the protests that for months brought Hong Kong to a standstill are portrayed by Beijing and its supporters as being a violent \u201ccolour revolution\u201d.I remember them differently; they began as huge, peaceful demonstrations centred on democratic ideals that in their later stages were hijacked by a minority of radicals with ulterior motives.To represent the movement that brought hundreds of\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3137138\/hong-kong-protests-colour-revolution-or-peaceful-demonstrations?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHistory often has several versions of events, depending on which side is telling the story. Two years on, the protests that for months brought&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}