{"id":46230,"date":"2022-07-09T20:36:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-thousands-of-protesters-storm-presidents-official-residence-video"},"modified":"2022-07-09T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:36:02","slug":"sri-lanka-thousands-of-protesters-storm-presidents-official-residence-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46230","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: thousands of protesters storm president&#8217;s official residence \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters stormed the president&#8217;s official residence in Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital, Colombo, after clashing with police and breaking through barriers. Tens of thousands of people had gathered to demand that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa step down as the country continues to struggle through its worst economic crisis since independence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-protests-thousands-storm-presidents-residence-colombo\">Sri Lanka protests: thousands storm president\u2019s residence in Colombo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-thousands-of-protesters-storm-presidents-official-residence-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters stormed the president&#8217;s official residence in Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital, Colombo, after clashing with police and breaking through barriers. Tens of thousands of people had gathered to demand that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa step down as the count&#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":[80,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230","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=46230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46270,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230\/revisions\/46270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}