{"id":46256,"date":"2022-07-10T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T10:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/10\/sri-lanka-protesters-set-fire-to-prime-minister-home-video"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T10:11:15","slug":"sri-lanka-protesters-set-fire-to-prime-ministers-home-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46256","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: protesters set fire to prime minister&#8217;s home \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters stormed the Sri Lankan prime minister&#8217;s home and set it on fire during a day of mass unrest, as the country continues to struggle through its worst economic crisis since independence. Earlier Ranil Wickremesinghe had told a meeting of party leaders that he would resign as soon as a new all-party government was formed. The Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has also agreed to resign after his residence was stormed by thousands of demonstrators<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/10\/sri-lanka-protesters-set-fire-to-prime-minister-home-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters stormed the Sri Lankan prime minister&#8217;s home and set it on fire during a day of mass unrest, as the country continues to struggle through its worst economic crisis since independence. Earlier Ranil Wickremesinghe had told a meeting of party &#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":[80,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","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\/46256","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=46256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46257,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions\/46257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}