{"id":5142,"date":"2019-01-13T19:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2019-01-13T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T19:38:50","slug":"gota-says-he-is-ready-to-face-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gota-says-he-is-ready-to-face-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota says he is ready to face Presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he is ready to face the next Presidential elections if it is the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking at an event in Colombo, Rajapaksa said that this year will be an important year with Presidential elections scheduled to be held.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe know Presidential elections will be held this year. I am ready for this if you are,\u201d he told the gathering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rajapaksa said that Sri Lankans must put the country first before anything else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that it is important to address social issues before addressing individual rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he is ready to face the next Presidential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}