{"id":14003,"date":"2018-09-06T02:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14003"},"modified":"2018-09-06T02:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:24:25","slug":"rajapaksa-leads-sri-lanka-protests-calls-for-government-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14003","title":{"rendered":"Rajapaksa leads Sri Lanka protests, calls for government change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>Tens of thousands have gathered on the streets of Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital to call for the government to go.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa &#8211; who suffered a surprise defeat in the presidential election three years ago &#8211; is leading the protest.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena&#8217;s government was viewed as an opportunity for a fresh start in the South Asian nation, but the protesters say that it is weak and has failed to fulfil its promises.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Wayne Hay reports from Colombo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands have gathered on the streets of Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital to call for the government to go. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa &#8211; who suffered a surprise defeat in the presidential election three years ago &#8211; is leading the protest. President Sirisena&#8217;s government was viewed as an opportunity for a fresh start in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}