{"id":103329,"date":"2020-06-09T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103329"},"modified":"2020-06-09T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T22:22:19","slug":"the-us-official-who-refused-a-pcr-test-at-the-airport-was-not-a-diplomat-minster-wimal-weerwansa-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/09\/the-us-official-who-refused-a-pcr-test-at-the-airport-was-not-a-diplomat-minster-wimal-weerwansa-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The US official who refused a PCR test at the airport was not a diplomat &#8211; Minster Wimal Weerwansa  (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nMinister Wimal Weerawansa revealed today that the US official who arrived in Sri Lanka and refused to be subject to a PCR test was not a diplomat.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nHe was speaking at a press conference held in Colombo. The Minister also expressed his views regarding the conduct of the Election Commission Chairman.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Minister Wimal Weerawansa revealed today that the US official who arrived in Sri Lanka and refused to be subject to a PCR test was not a diplomat. He was speaking at a press conference held in Colombo. The Minister also expressed his views regarding the conduct of the Election Commission Chairman.<\/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-103329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103329","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=103329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}