{"id":6489,"date":"2019-06-02T04:44:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T04:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2019-06-02T04:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T04:44:17","slug":"president-says-undecided-whether-to-run-in-upcoming-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-says-undecided-whether-to-run-in-upcoming-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"President says undecided whether to run in upcoming poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">President Maithripala Sirisena said today that he had not decided on seeking another term in an election that is due by year-end, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">&#8220;I am not in a hurry to decide whether to stand,&#8221; Sirisena told a news conference in New Delhi, a day after attending Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Sirisena has faced criticism over his leadership after a string of deadly suicide bombings killed more than 250 people in the island nation on April 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena said today that he had not decided on seeking another term&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6490,"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-6489","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\/6489","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=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}