{"id":9340,"date":"2016-08-26T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=9340"},"modified":"2016-08-31T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:06:11","slug":"election-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2016\/08\/election-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Election terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many terms and buzzwords can be seen and heard in news and discussions surrounding the upcoming Legislative Council elections. Some of these terms -such as <em>toi kiu <\/em>(\u62ac\u8f4e) which literally means &#8220;carry a sedan chair&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0can be quite confusing. Here, we try to explain a few of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9342\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n.jpg\" alt=\"14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n\" width=\"670\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141572_1174364985936033_677547492080060075_n-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9341\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n.jpg\" alt=\"14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n\" width=\"670\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14141787_1174364942602704_7753410486888280127_n-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9343\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n.jpg\" alt=\"14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n\" width=\"670\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14064122_1174364939269371_6016598450794052790_n-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many terms and buzzwords can be seen and heard in news and discussions surrounding the upcoming Legislative Council elections. Some of these terms -such as toi kiu (\u62ac\u8f4e) which literally means &#8220;carry a sedan chair&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0can be quite confusing. Here, we try to explain a few of them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legco-2016","category-what-you-should-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340","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=9340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9354,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions\/9354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}