{"id":42104,"date":"2019-12-28T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42104"},"modified":"2019-12-28T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:22:04","slug":"grand-theft-auto-v-becomes-latest-battleground-of-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42104","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto V becomes latest battleground of Hong Kong protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-intl-hnk\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong political crisis<\/a> is now playing out in the virtual world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Popular online video game &#8220;Grand Theft Auto V&#8221; has become a battleground between protesters in the semi-autonomous Chinese city and their rival players in mainland China. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The online duel began after Hong Kong players discovered that their in-game avatars could dress like protesters, wearing black clothing, gas masks and yellow safety helmets. They shared the discovery last week on <a href=\"https:\/\/lihkg.com\/thread\/1780840\/page\/1\" target=\"_blank\">LIHKG<\/a>, a social media platform and discussion forum similar to Reddit that is popular in Hong Kong.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)The Hong Kong political crisis is now playing out in the virtual world.Popular online video game &#8220;Grand Theft Auto V&#8221; has become a battleground between protesters in the semi-autonomous Chinese city and their rival players in mainland China. The online duel began after Hong Kong players discovered that their in-game avatars could&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}