{"id":111846,"date":"2017-02-09T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=111846"},"modified":"2017-02-09T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:02:29","slug":"long-hair-goes-mass-small-circle-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/long-hair-goes-mass-small-circle-race\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Long hair’ goes to mass for ‘small-circle’ race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n

Though ridiculed as \u201csmall-circle election,\u201d the chief executive elections in Hong Kong have never seen a dearth of surprises, ironies and entertainment. The entry of \u201clong hair\u201d Leung Kwok-hung into the fray yesterday is a case of all three.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s chief executive race kicked off, in a sense, with the surprise announcement by Leung on December 9, saying he would not seek five more years to prolong his rule at the end of his current term. Seen as a surprise decision before that date, Leung\u2019s deputy Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor made an expected announcement on December 10 she would reconsider running for the top post.<\/p>\n

The weirdness of the ongoing 2017 chief executive election thickened yesterday as Leung Kwok-hung, accompanied by four like-minded pan-democrat legislators, launched a civic nomination campaign for his election bid.<\/p>\n

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Though ridiculed as \u201csmall-circle election,\u201d the chief executive elections in Hong Kong have never seen a dearth of surprises, ironies and entertainment. The entry of \u201clong hair\u201d Leung Kwok-hung into the fray yesterday is a case of all three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":103688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17613,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cy1031.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-t5Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}