{"id":72442,"date":"2019-10-21T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72442"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:43:22","slug":"that-exploding-heads-sound-in-dinkytown-last-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72442","title":{"rendered":"That &#8220;Exploding Heads&#8221; Sound In Dinkytown Last Friday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/hong-kong-protests-come-to-the-univ-of-minnesota\/89-38f607f4-fd7e-438c-8776-28cd6944f370?fbclid=IwAR0SeESeKCaNCf-ls6toxLI3PCLabUZ14CoDXBelaXa3afzt2ovs0ffxyQU\">Actual anti-fascists coming to the U of M<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A global debate over democracy and Hong Kong&#8217;s relationship with China boiled over at the University of Minnesota on Friday, as Hong Kong protesters marched through campus in the state&#8217;s first known organized event.\u00a0<br>The organizer of the march, a Hong Kong native and university student who remained anonymous due to fear of retribution, said he hopes to raise awareness in Minnesota about Hong Kong&#8217;s democratic struggle. The demonstrators spent the afternoon chanting and carrying signs that read\u00a0<em>&#8220;FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, STAND WITH HONG KONG&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>&#8220;SUPPORT THE HONG KONG HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ACT.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazingly, the counterprotest wasn&#8217;t actually upper-middle-class white kids with &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa banners, but rather students from the &#8220;Peoples&#8217; Republic&#8221;.  Never mind them, they&#8217;re on the payroll for just that sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual anti-fascists coming to the U of M: A global debate over democracy and Hong Kong&#8217;s relationship with China boiled over at the University of Minnesota on Friday, as Hong Kong protesters marched through campus in the state&#8217;s first known organized event.\u00a0The organizer of the march, a Hong Kong native and university student who remained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72443,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72442\/revisions\/72443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}