{"id":105337,"date":"2020-08-10T03:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105337"},"modified":"2020-08-10T03:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:04:24","slug":"ranil-decides-to-step-down-from-unp-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/10\/ranil-decides-to-step-down-from-unp-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil decides to step down from UNP leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202008\/1597049067_1094835_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Ranil+decides+to+step+down+from+UNP+leadership+\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Ranil Wickremesinghe decides to step down as UNP leader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravi Karunanayake, Daya Gamage, Akila Viraj &amp; Vajira Abeywardena have been nominated for the post of UNP leader according to Akila Viraj Kariyawasam &#8211; UNP General Secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final decision is to be taken in consultation in the coming week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Ranil Wickremesinghe decides to step down as UNP leader.&nbsp; Ravi Karunanayake, Daya Gamage, Akila Viraj &amp; Vajira Abeywardena have been nominated for the post of UNP leader according to Akila Viraj Kariyawasam &#8211; UNP General Secretary. The final decision is to be taken in consultation in the coming week.<\/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-105337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105337","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=105337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}