{"id":72,"date":"2004-04-05T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2004-04-05T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:19:00","slug":"korean-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Korean Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

We actually got caught up in this protest<\/a> in Seoul last week. We came out of Kyobo (Korea’s largest bookstore) and walked straight into a horde of protesting Koreans. The photo makes them look angry, and indeed the people I spoke to in Korea were mostly irate at the opposition’s behaviour, however from what I saw at this protest they were enjoying themselves thoroughly. Bands were playing, vendors were selling food and it seemed like hundreds of people were trying to give us candles in cups (it was bloody cold, so we were very tempted to take them just to warm our hands). Apparently the protest went on for 3 or 4 days, so maybe all protests should be this much fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We actually got caught up in this protest in Seoul last week. We came out of Kyobo (Korea’s largest bookstore) and walked straight into a horde of protesting Koreans. The photo makes them look angry, and indeed the people I spoke to in Korea were mostly irate at the opposition’s behaviour, however from what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}