{"id":44418,"date":"2014-10-08T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44418"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:47:04","slug":"hong-kong-protest-exceeds-hedge-fund-managers-wildest-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/hong-kong-protest-exceeds-hedge-fund-managers-wildest-dream.html","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Protest Exceeds Hedge-Fund Manager\u2019s Wildest Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hong Kong hedge-fund manager and pro-democracy activist Edward Chin says that the scale of student protests that exploded in the city from Sept. 28 exceeded his \u201cwildest dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just expected 10,000 people sitting at Chater Garden,\u201d Chin said in an interview this week, referring to plans by the Occupy Central With Love and Peace group. Instead, crowds swelled to as many as 200,000, according to protest leaders. Chin, 46, is one of a group of finance professionals who published open letters to Chinese President Xi Jinping supporting Occupy Central and urging genuine universal suffrage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-08\/hedge-fund-manager-s-wildest-dreams-topped-by-hong-kong-protest.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hong Kong hedge-fund manager and pro-democracy activist Edward Chin says that the scale of student protests that exploded in the city from Sept. 28 exceeded his \u201cwildest dreams.\u201d \u201cI just expected 10,000 people sitting at Chater Garden,\u201d Chin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44420,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44418\/revisions\/44420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}