{"id":46262,"date":"2022-07-11T02:26:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T17:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/occupy-temple-trees-sri-lankans-roam-and-revel-in-overrun-presidential-palace"},"modified":"2022-07-11T02:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T17:26:15","slug":"occupy-temple-trees-sri-lankans-revel-in-overrun-presidential-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46262","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Temple Trees: Sri Lankans revel in overrun presidential palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters turn compound into community kitchen and museum as they demand president\u2019s resignation<\/p>\n<p>It was once the palatial colonial-era home frequented only by Sri Lanka\u2019s political elite. But by Sunday morning, Temple Trees, the formal residence of the country\u2019s prime minister, was \u201copen to the public\u201d, according to a large sign graffitied at the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the dramatic events of Saturday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-thousands-of-protesters-storm-presidents-official-residence-video\">stormed the state residences of the president<\/a>, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Temple Trees was among the political properties now defiantly occupied by ordinary Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/occupy-temple-trees-sri-lankans-roam-and-revel-in-overrun-presidential-palace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters turn compound into community kitchen and museum as they demand president\u2019s resignationIt was once the palatial colonial-era home frequented only by Sri Lanka\u2019s political elite. But by Sunday morning, Temple Trees, the formal residence of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/46262","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46263,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262\/revisions\/46263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}