{"id":131366,"date":"2023-01-13T16:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131366"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T23:34:48","slug":"lotus-tower-defaced-several-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/13\/lotus-tower-defaced-several-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Tower defaced, several arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The management of the Lotus Tower urged the public to help preserve the iconic structure by treating it as a national treasure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The request was made after the observation deck was defaced by several individuals who were later arrested by Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The management said that legal action will be taken against those who defaced the property at the tower.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lotus Tower was opened to the public in September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the tower had received half a million visitors since the tower opened to public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka and China signed the Lotus Tower agreement in 2012 to build the highest TV tower in South Asia, with a Chinese company being the general contractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The management of the Lotus Tower urged the public to help preserve the iconic structure by treating it as a national treasure.&nbsp; The request was made after the observation deck was defaced by several individuals who were later arrested by Police. The management said that legal action will be taken against [&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-131366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131366","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=131366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}