{"id":123600,"date":"2022-03-18T04:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123600"},"modified":"2022-03-18T04:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:42:44","slug":"motorcycle-parade-cancelled-due-to-public-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/03\/18\/motorcycle-parade-cancelled-due-to-public-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle parade cancelled due to public protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A three-day motorcycle parade organised by a private motorcycle club called &#8220;Spin Rider Club&#8221; from Mirigama to Anuradhapura via Kalpitiya has been cancelled by the police due to public protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The said club had sought permission to hold the parade in line with a cash donation to Maharagama Apeksha Hospital and distribution of books and stationery to school children in Kalpitiya. Police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said permission was granted subject to conditions and charging government fees as it was a request made legally regarding a charity work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the parade scheduled from Kalpitiya to Anuradhapura has been cancelled due to public protest and violation of agreed conditions, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said steps would be taken to take legal action if they had acted against the law..&nbsp;<strong>(Ajith Siriwardana)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror A three-day motorcycle parade organised by a private motorcycle club called &#8220;Spin Rider Club&#8221; from Mirigama to Anuradhapura via Kalpitiya has been cancelled by the police due to public protest. The said club had sought permission to hold the parade in line with a cash donation to Maharagama Apeksha Hospital and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}