{"id":20616,"date":"2022-03-15T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=20616"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:42:49","slug":"you-may-say-im-a-dreamer-editors-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2022\/03\/you-may-say-im-a-dreamer-editors-note\/","title":{"rendered":"You May Say I\u2019m A Dreamer &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A career in the entertainment industry has always fascinated many people. Many of them decided to put in determined efforts to pursue their dreams of being on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Periscope section follows the stories of passionate youngsters as they aspire to become singers. Hong Kong\u2019s popular reality show <em>King Maker<\/em> has inspired many Hongkongers to strive to become the city\u2019s next popular idol, while many others have attended training by South Korean entertainment groups as they fight for fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue of <em>Varsity<\/em> also explores many other interesting issues and phenomena, from the rise of takeaway food in Hong Kong amid the Covid-19 pandemic and social media detox, to the Chinese government\u2019s anti-scam app and its crackdown on erotic novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have an enjoyable read!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/signature-1024x247.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20752\" width=\"210\" height=\"49\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leung Pak-hei<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A career in the entertainment industry has always fascinated many people. Many of them decided to put in determined efforts to pursue their dreams of being on stage. Our Periscope section follows the stories of passionate youngsters as they aspire to become singers. Hong Kong\u2019s popular reality show King Maker has inspired many Hongkongers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-note","category-march-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20753,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616\/revisions\/20753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}