{"id":106310,"date":"2020-09-06T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106310"},"modified":"2020-09-06T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T22:11:20","slug":"two-books-written-by-the-defense-secretary-are-released-under-the-patronage-of-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/06\/two-books-written-by-the-defense-secretary-are-released-under-the-patronage-of-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Two books written by the Defense Secretary are released under the patronage of the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Two books written by retired Defense Secretary Major General Kamal Gunaratne were launched at the Kularatne Hall of Ananda College, Colombo today,&nbsp;released under the patronage of the President.<\/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=\"\u0d9a\u0db8\u0dbd\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dab\u0dbb\u0dad\u0dca\u0db1 \u0db4\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0dc5\u0dd6 \u0db4\u0ddc\u0dad\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd9\u0d9a - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cdgum25hNt0?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\n\n\n<p>The English translation of the book &#8220;Gotabhaya&#8221; written by the Defense Secretary as well as the novel\u00a0 &#8216;Underworld&#8217; based on a series of true events were released at this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the commemoration of the late Minister Chandrasiri Gajadeera was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Uyanwatta Stadium in Matara today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Two books written by retired Defense Secretary Major General Kamal Gunaratne were launched at the Kularatne Hall of Ananda College, Colombo today,&nbsp;released under the patronage of the President. The English translation of the book &#8220;Gotabhaya&#8221; written by the Defense Secretary as well as the novel\u00a0 &#8216;Underworld&#8217; based on a series of true [&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-106310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106310","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=106310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}