{"id":51,"date":"2003-10-01T11:32:54","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T11:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2003-10-01T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T11:32:54","slug":"national_day_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/national_day_or\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day or&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>more accurately, happy Chinese Communist day!<\/p>\n<p>On 1 October 1949, the Red Army took control of the mainland and declared the founding of the PRC (while the legitimate Nationalist Government retreated to Taiwan).  This day is celebrated as &#8220;National Day&#8221;, much like the 4th of July is out here. It&#8217;s a day off with celebrations in a jingoistic and nationalist manner, just like any other national celebration.<\/p>\n<p>They also had some observances in Hong Kong, met with protesters.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gweilodiaries.com\/archives\/001504.html#001504\">How nice<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>However, because of the political climate there after 1 July, the Communists are preparing to <a href=\"http:\/\/straitstimes.asia1.com.sg\/asia\/story\/0,4386,212427,00.html\">intervene in next year&#8217;s elections<\/a> that could, in theory, break their lock on the LegCo.   Different analysis but same conclusion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gweilodiaries.com\/archives\/001503.html#001503\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds very omnious.  Read the last line about &#8220;arranging an initiative scheme&#8221; for their people to demonstrate and vote.  That means they will pay their members to vote and be loud and stupid.  Sounds like union, I mean democrap tactics to me.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>more accurately, happy Chinese Communist day! On 1 October 1949, the Red Army took control of the mainland and declared the founding of the PRC (while the legitimate Nationalist Government retreated to Taiwan). This day is celebrated as &#8220;National Day&#8221;, much like the 4th of July is out here. It&#8217;s a day off with celebrations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/national_day_or\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Day or&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}