{"id":61338,"date":"2016-12-12T01:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T07:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61338"},"modified":"2016-12-11T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:51:14","slug":"govt-defending-navy-action-gota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/12\/govt-defending-navy-action-gota\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. defending Navy action: Gota"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"well well-lg\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/media\/images\/image_1481440579-4662f0195a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa commenting on the yesterday\u2019s incident which took place at the protest held at the Hambantota harbour said the government was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>defending the Navy&#8217;s unlawful action.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A tense situation prevailed at the Hambantota Port when the navy tried to release the two ships seized by workers staging a protest at the port. Navy personnel fired warning shots to disperse the protesters. The Navy Commander is also alleged to have threatened a journalist who was present\u00a0 at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/article\/Govt-defending-Navy-action-Gota-120511.html#sthash.FgL5ML0P.dpuf<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/oClLpzyy-BE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa commenting on the yesterday\u2019s incident which took place at the protest held at the Hambantota harbour said the government was defending the Navy&#8217;s unlawful action. A tense situation prevailed at the Hambantota Port when the navy tried to release the two ships seized by workers staging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61338","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=61338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}