{"id":9443,"date":"2016-09-01T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2016-09-01T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:23:02","slug":"my-first-vote_lee-shing-chun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/my-first-vote_lee-shing-chun\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Vote &#8211; Lee Shing-chun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Shing-chun, 20, says the current splits in society are worrying.<\/p>\n<p>Lee says that when people respect one another, the existence of many different voices demonstrate diversity. But when people start insulting those who hold different views, diversity is twisted into increasing polarisation.\u00a0He hopes society can remain rational while discussing various issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA hundred people can have 100 different voices. As long as they respect one another, then that\u2019s diversity. But if they don\u2019t respect each other and insult one another and use hurtful words, then it\u2019s twisted. Society becomes torn.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Shing-chun, 20, says the current splits in society are worrying. Lee says that when people respect one another, the existence of many different voices demonstrate diversity. But when people start insulting those who hold different views, diversity is twisted into increasing polarisation.\u00a0He hopes society can remain rational while discussing various issues. \u201cA hundred people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legco-2016","category-my-first-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443","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=9443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}