{"id":71053,"date":"2014-10-10T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=71053"},"modified":"2014-10-10T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:30:52","slug":"riots-continue-in-freetown-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=71053","title":{"rendered":"Riots continue in Freetown, Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unrest continues in Freetown for a second day as tension mounts in the streets between the bike riders, youths, and Sierra Leone Police after the death of a bike rider who was chased by Okada Task Force and Sierra Leone Police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shops are staying closed and traffic is chaotic with many vehicles being damaged as people run amok and tear gas has been fired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile government, Bike Riders Union, civil society organizations, and political parties have gathered to mediate the situation. It is hoped that an immediate resolution is found.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unrest continues in Freetown for a second day as tension mounts in the streets between the bike riders, youths, and Sierra Leone Police after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,11448],"tags":[16124,1155,19711,19687],"class_list":["post-71053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","tag-bike-riders-union","tag-okada-riders","tag-riots","tag-riots-freetown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}