{"id":2336,"date":"2022-04-14T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/sri-lankas-new-year-celebrations-overshadowed-by-economic-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-04-14T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:12:09","slug":"sri-lankas-new-year-celebrations-overshadowed-by-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s New Year celebrations overshadowed by economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGZ3evm8Ew0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thousands of Sri Lankans are marking the New Year with protests, as the country continues to face its worst economic crisis in decades. <br \/>\nDemonstrators have surrounded President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s office, demanding his resignation.<br \/>\nAl Jazeera&#8217;s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Follow us on Twitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Find us on Facebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Check our website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#SriLanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Sri Lankans are marking the New Year with protests, as the country continues to face its worst economic crisis in decades. Demonstrators have surrounded President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s office, demanding his resignation. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}