{"id":8211,"date":"2015-11-18T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T04:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T06:43:11","slug":"history-development-district-council-part-before-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/history-development-district-council-part-before-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"The History and Development of the District Council &#8211; Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This infographic shows the history and development of the District Council before 1997. Tomorrow we will post Part II, showing development after the handover of Hong Kong&#8217;s sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Before 1997, the District Councils were called District Boards<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-18-Varsity-DC_infographic_history_pre97-01-smaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8212\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-18-Varsity-DC_infographic_history_pre97-01-smaller-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Varsity DC_infographic_template\" width=\"610\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-18-Varsity-DC_infographic_history_pre97-01-smaller-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-18-Varsity-DC_infographic_history_pre97-01-smaller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-18-Varsity-DC_infographic_history_pre97-01-smaller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-18-Varsity-DC_infographic_history_pre97-01-smaller-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-18-Varsity-DC_infographic_history_pre97-01-smaller-900x900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This infographic shows the history and development of the District Council before 1997. Tomorrow we will post Part II, showing development after the handover of Hong Kong&#8217;s sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997. Note: Before 1997, the District Councils were called District Boards &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-council-poll-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8214,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}