{"id":5198,"date":"2014-09-10T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:36:04","slug":"libyan-parliament-takes-refuge-in-greek-car-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libyan-parliament-takes-refuge-in-greek-car-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Libyan parliament takes refuge in Greek car ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek car ferry has been hired as last-minute accommodation for Libya&#8217;s embattled parliament, which has fled the country&#8217;s civil war to the small eastern town of Tobruk.<\/p>\n<p>The 17,000-ton Elyros liner has been deployed, complete with its Greek crew, as a floating hotel for a legislature clinging to power in the Libyan city that is last stop before the Egyptian border.<\/p>\n<p>Tobruk is no stranger to last stands. In the second world war, British and Commonwealth forces endured months of attacks from Erwin Rommel&#8217;s Africa Corps. Now the siege mentality is back.<\/p>\n<p>Islamists and their allies have captured the capital, Tripoli, and most of Benghazi, the country&#8217;s second city&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/sep\/09\/libyan-parliament-refuge-greek-car-ferry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek car ferry has been hired as last-minute accommodation for Libya&#8217;s embattled parliament, which has fled the country&#8217;s civil war to the small eastern town of Tobruk. The 17,000-ton Elyros liner has been deployed, complete with its Greek crew, as a floating hotel for a legislature clinging to power in the Libyan city that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,893,3988,3990,4711,892,257,4694,254,3989,897],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benghazi","tag-elyros","tag-greek-car-ferry","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tobruk","tag-tripoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}