{"id":9261,"date":"2020-07-18T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:21:54","slug":"reopening-of-schools-postponed-till-after-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/reopening-of-schools-postponed-till-after-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Reopening of schools postponed till after polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The reopening of Government schools has been postponed till after the 5th August election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Education Ministry sources told Colombo Gazette that schools, which were closed this week, will remain closed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sources said schools will remain closed until at least 10th August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Education Ministry sources said that since some schools need to be prepared to be used as polling centres for the Parliamentary election they cannot be reopened earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As a result, the schools will be kept closed until at least 10th August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Schools were closed on 13 March as a result of the coronavirus and reopened in stages this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However with the virus spreading in some parts of the country schools were closed again this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reopening of Government schools has been postponed till after the 5th August election.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9262,"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-9261","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\/9261","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=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}