{"id":1216,"date":"2008-11-26T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2008-11-26T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:28:38","slug":"whats-happening-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s happening in Thailand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A six-month campaign of protests against the Thai government has been led by a movement called PAD which stands for People&#8217;s Alliance for Democracy. So how democratic is PAD?<br \/>\nThe movement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is a loose grouping of royalists, businessmen and the urban middle class\n<li>has called for parliament to be largely appointed\n<li>supported the military coup that ousted the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawathra\n<li>wants to remove the current Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat\n<li>has prevented the cabinet meeting\n<li>has forced the cancellation of a session of the parliament\n<li>has brought about the closure of the main international airport<\/ul>\n<p>Further information <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/7584005.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-month campaign of protests against the Thai government has been led by a movement called PAD which stands for People&#8217;s Alliance for Democracy. So how democratic is PAD? The movement: is a loose grouping of royalists, businessmen and the urban middle class has called for parliament to be largely appointed supported the military coup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}