{"id":127475,"date":"2022-07-30T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127475"},"modified":"2022-07-30T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T22:23:48","slug":"man-arrested-for-stealing-presidents-flag-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/30\/man-arrested-for-stealing-presidents-flag-remanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for stealing President\u2019s flag remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The man who stole the President\u2019s official flag and used it as a bedsheet has been remanded until the 05th of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127476\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect was produced before the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was taken into custody after he surrendered to the Wellaweediya Police last morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 09th of July, people in large numbers thronged Colombo to take part in the mass demonstrations against the government over economic mismanagement and corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the demonstrations made strides, the protesters stormed the President\u2019s House in Colombo among several other state buildings and continued to occupy the premises for several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The man who stole the President\u2019s official flag and used it as a bedsheet has been remanded until the 05th of August. The suspect was produced before the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court earlier today. He was taken into custody after he surrendered to the Wellaweediya Police last morning. On the 09th of July, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127475","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=127475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}