{"id":16036,"date":"2018-09-23T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T08:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16036"},"modified":"2018-09-23T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T08:22:27","slug":"sri-lanka-ex-president-blames-government-for-inflation-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16036","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka ex-president blames government for inflation crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"58.1811594203\">\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/rajapaksa-leads-sri-lanka-protests-calls-government-change-180905191543250.html\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a> has accused the current government of mismanaging the country&#8217;s finances.<\/p>\n<p>The rupee has plummeted against the dollar in recent months and inflation is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has accused the current government of mismanaging the country&#8217;s finances. The rupee has plummeted against the dollar in recent months and inflation is at an all-time high. \u00a0 Al Jazeera\u2019s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16036","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\/16036","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=16036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}