{"id":125116,"date":"2022-05-09T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125116"},"modified":"2022-05-09T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T22:23:50","slug":"rajapaksas-ancestral-home-torched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/09\/rajapaksas-ancestral-home-torched\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajapaksas\u2019 ancestral home torched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Medamulana-Walawwa-the-ancestral-home-of-the-Rajapaksas-set-on-fire-by-a-mob-591x375.jpg\" alt=\"Rajapaksas\u2019 ancestral home torched\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo, May 9 (Ceylon Today\/newsin.asia): Medamulana Walawwa\u2019, the ancestral home of the Rajapaksa family, was set ablaze by protesters a short while ago (09). Earlier, protesters were seen setting fire to the D.A. Rajapaksa memorial in Medamulana, Hambantota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Colombo, three vehicles parked inside the Prime Minister\u2019s official residence Temple Trees were torched by anti-government protesters. In the evening, the police had to fire in the air to disperse a crowd outside the Temple Trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the curfew imposed on Monday had been extended up to 7 am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 9 (Ceylon Today\/newsin.asia): Medamulana Walawwa\u2019, the ancestral home of the Rajapaksa family, was set ablaze by protesters a short while ago (09). Earlier, protesters were seen setting fire to the D.A. Rajapaksa memorial in Medamulana, Hambantota. In Colombo, three vehicles parked inside the Prime Minister\u2019s official residence Temple Trees were torched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125116","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=125116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}