{"id":119516,"date":"2021-02-13T06:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-last-time-i-went-for-a-long-walk-in-a-big-city-and-worried-about-being-arrested-was-hong-hong-in-the-early-2000s-as-china-began-dismantling-the-one-country"},"modified":"2021-02-13T06:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:23:06","slug":"the-last-time-i-went-for-a-long-walk-in-a-big-city-and-worried-about-being-arrested-was-hong-hong-in-the-early-2000s-as-china-began-dismantling-the-one-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-last-time-i-went-for-a-long-walk-in-a-big-city-and-worried-about-being-arrested-was-hong-hong-in-the-early-2000s-as-china-began-dismantling-the-one-country","title":{"rendered":"The last time I went for a long walk in a big city and worried about being arrested was Hong Hong in the early 2000\u2019s as China began dismantling the one country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-last-time-i-went-for-a-long-walk-in-a-big-city-and-worried-about-being-arrested-was-hong-hong-in-the-early-2000s-as-china-began-dismantling-the-one-country2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last time I went for a long walk in a big city and worried about being arrested was Hong Hong in the early 2000\u2019s as China began dismantling the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d policies which once protected Hong Hong citizens from Chinese autocrats.<\/p>\n<p>The only time before that was in Moscow in the middle 1970\u2019s when Russia was under the dictatorship of the communist party and free movement wasn\u2019t allowed. The communist media in Russia then, much like the Canadian media today, also felt it important to remind us that the restrictions on movement, liberty and association were for our safety, not theirs.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m still gonna go for a walk past Dundas Square and Queens Park today around noon and take pictures of what I find. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I went for a long walk in a big city and worried about being arrested was Hong Hong in the early 2000\u2019s as China began dismantling the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d policies which once protected Hong Hong citizens from Chinese autocrats. The only time before that was in Moscow in the middle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}