{"id":10148,"date":"2017-02-27T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2017-03-07T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T07:30:10","slug":"chief-executive-election-2017-terminology-kingmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/chief-executive-election-2017-terminology-kingmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Executive Election 2017 Terminology &#8211; Kingmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When pro-democracy candidates won an unprecedented 327 seats on the 1200 member Election Committee, \u00a0some commentators started to discuss whether the group &#8211; making up more than a quarter of the body that nominates and elects the Chief Executive &#8211; could act as a &#8220;kingmaker&#8221;. What does this mean?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10149\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kingmaker.jpg\" alt=\"kingmaker\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kingmaker.jpg 842w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kingmaker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kingmaker-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kingmaker-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kingmaker-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kingmaker-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When pro-democracy candidates won an unprecedented 327 seats on the 1200 member Election Committee, \u00a0some commentators started to discuss whether the group &#8211; making up more than a quarter of the body that nominates and elects the Chief Executive &#8211; could act as a &#8220;kingmaker&#8221;. What does this mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[587,595],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ce-election-2017","category-terminology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}