{"id":8240,"date":"2015-11-20T23:20:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2015-11-20T23:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:26:30","slug":"history-district-council-after-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/history-district-council-after-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"History and development of the District Council Part II &#8211; after 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-19-Varsity-DC_infographic_history-thumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8241\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-19-Varsity-DC_infographic_history-thumb-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Varsity DC_infographic_template\" width=\"610\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-19-Varsity-DC_infographic_history-thumb-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-19-Varsity-DC_infographic_history-thumb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-19-Varsity-DC_infographic_history-thumb-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-19-Varsity-DC_infographic_history-thumb-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov-19-Varsity-DC_infographic_history-thumb-900x900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elected district boards were replaced by a provisional body after the handover in 1997 which was disbanded after fresh elections were held in 1999. This year&#8217;s election will return 458 members and there will be no appointed members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8240","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\/8240","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=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}