{"id":5389,"date":"2026-06-11T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/tiananmen-square-what-happened-in-the-protests-of-1989-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:51:58","slug":"tiananmen-square-what-happened-in-the-protests-of-1989-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/tiananmen-square-what-happened-in-the-protests-of-1989-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3RzKKfNkTk?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Thirty years ago, Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square became the focus for large-scale protests, which were crushed by China&#8217;s Communist rulers.<\/p>\n<p>The events produced one of the most iconic photos of the 20th Century &#8211; a lone protester standing in front of a line of army tanks.<br \/>\nWhat led up to the events?<\/p>\n<p>Video by: Zichen Tsui, BBC Chinese<br \/>\nPlease subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S3RzKKfNkTk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square became the focus for large-scale protests, which were crushed by China&#8217;s Communist rulers. The events produced one of the most iconic photos of the 20th Century &#8211; a lone protester standing in front of a line of army tanks. What led up to the events? Video by: Zichen Tsui, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,169,505,10567,532,10569,10570,566,10568,533,368,10566,10565],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-beijing","tag-beijings-tiananmen-square","tag-china","tag-china-communist-party","tag-china-communist-rule","tag-china-news","tag-china-square","tag-chinese","tag-news","tag-tiananmen","tag-tiananmen-square","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}