{"id":104689,"date":"2020-07-21T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104689"},"modified":"2020-07-21T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:59:08","slug":"former-minister-of-cultural-affairs-pressurized-the-head-of-archaeology-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/21\/former-minister-of-cultural-affairs-pressurized-the-head-of-archaeology-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister of Cultural Affairs pressurized the Head of Archaeology (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Director General of Archeology Senarath Dissanayake stated that he was subjected to various pressures from the Minister of&nbsp;Cultural Affairs&nbsp; during the previous government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at a media briefing today regarding the demolition of a building allegedly belonging to King Bhuvanekabahu&#8217;s royal palace in Kurunegala. He further stated that the Department of Archeology was not politicized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0db4\u0dd4 \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc3\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dd8\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dcf \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0db0\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0da7 \u0db6\u0dbd\u0db4\u0dd1\u0db8\u0dca ! - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqaTyGlyfI4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Director General of Archeology Senarath Dissanayake stated that he was subjected to various pressures from the Minister of&nbsp;Cultural Affairs&nbsp; during the previous government. He was speaking at a media briefing today regarding the demolition of a building allegedly belonging to King Bhuvanekabahu&#8217;s royal palace in Kurunegala. He further stated that the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104689","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=104689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}