{"id":16389,"date":"2019-04-21T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2019-04-21T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:59:15","slug":"several-u-s-citizens-killed-in-terror-attacks-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16389","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Several&#8217; U.S. citizens killed in terror attacks in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p data-page=\"1\">&#8220;Several&#8221; U.S. citizens were among the hundreds killed in the coordinated terror attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, according to officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>The attacks came in the form of explosions at three churches and three hotels in the South Asian island country. More than 200 people were killed, including at least 27 foreigners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that some U.S. citizens were killed, and vowed that the U.S. Embassy will work \u201ctirelessly to provide all possible assistance\u201d to American citizens impacted by the attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>\u201cThe United States offers our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those killed and wishes a quick recovery to all who were injured,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWhile many details of the attack are still emerging, we can confirm that several U.S. citizens were among those killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Several&#8221; U.S. citizens were among the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16390,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions\/16390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}