{"id":108831,"date":"2020-11-20T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108831"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:15:37","slug":"pm-gifted-vintage-car-the-first-vehicle-he-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/20\/pm-gifted-vintage-car-the-first-vehicle-he-owned\/","title":{"rendered":"PM gifted vintage car, the first vehicle he owned"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was gifted his first vehicle, a FIAT 124 Sports Coop\u00e9, by the family which bought the vehicle from Rajapaksa years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S. A. Amarasiri who had purchased the vehicle from Mr. Rajapaksa had owned the vehicle until his demise. Mr. Amarasiri had also won a motor rally held in India, in which he participated with the FIAT, which is now a valuable 50 year old vintage motor car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_29c33d7a23.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Amarasiri\u2019s son and family have returned the vehicle to it\u2019s first owner, Premier Rajapaksa today, following a request from the Prime Minister\u2019s son Yoshitha Rajapaksa, to commemorate his 75th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_785f58e222.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_cf64b06b1c.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was gifted his first vehicle, a FIAT 124 Sports Coop\u00e9, by the family which bought the vehicle from Rajapaksa years ago. S. A. Amarasiri who had purchased the vehicle from Mr. Rajapaksa had owned the vehicle until his demise. Mr. Amarasiri had also won a motor rally [&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-108831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108831","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=108831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}