{"id":102109,"date":"2020-05-10T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102109"},"modified":"2020-05-10T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:55:51","slug":"us-embassy-confirms-gotabaya-renounced-citizenship-in-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/10\/us-embassy-confirms-gotabaya-renounced-citizenship-in-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy confirms Gotabaya renounced citizenship in April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The US Embassy in Colombo today confirmed that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa renounced his US citizenship in April 2019.<br>In response to a query by Daily Mirror, an embassy spokesman said President Rajapaksa was no longer a US citizen.<br>I can confirm that Gotabaya Rajapaksa renounced his US citizenship in April 2019. He is no longer a US citizen,\u201d the spokesman said.\u00a0\u00a0<br>The President\u2019s name appeared in the Federal register that lists out those who renounced the citizenship.\u00a0\u00a0<br>Normally it takes time for a name of an individual to appear upon renunciation of his citizenship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The US Embassy in Colombo today confirmed that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa renounced his US citizenship in April 2019.In response to a query by Daily Mirror, an embassy spokesman said President Rajapaksa was no longer a US citizen.I can confirm that Gotabaya Rajapaksa renounced his US citizenship in April 2019. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}