{"id":14187,"date":"2020-02-11T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/11\/maldives-apologises-to-british-tourist-arrested-for-wearing-a-bikini"},"modified":"2020-02-11T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:59:56","slug":"maldives-apologises-to-british-tourist-arrested-for-wearing-a-bikini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14187","title":{"rendered":"Maldives apologises to British tourist arrested for wearing a bikini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of parliament voices concern after police detained her for two hours for being \u2018inappropriately\u2019 dressed and unruly <\/p>\n<p>The speaker of the Maldives parliament has apologised to a British tourist after footage of her arrest by several policemen triggered criticism on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism is a major earner for the Maldives, a tropical archipelago in the Indian Ocean popular with honeymooners and celebrities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/11\/maldives-apologises-to-british-tourist-arrested-for-wearing-a-bikini\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of parliament voices concern after police detained her for two hours for being \u2018inappropriately\u2019 dressed and unruly The speaker of the Maldives parliament has apologised to a British tourist after footage of her arrest by several policemen trig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1091,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maldives","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14188,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions\/14188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}