{"id":110068,"date":"2020-12-24T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T23:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110068"},"modified":"2020-12-24T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T23:47:43","slug":"prime-ministers-christmas-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/24\/prime-ministers-christmas-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister\u2019s Christmas Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The\nbirth of Christ represents peace, forgiveness, mercy, and above all, hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May this year\u2019s Christmas be our promise of hope renewed. It is a time to spread joy and goodwill while appreciating our blessings in the presence of our loved ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nwe commemorate this joyous occasion, I want to say thank you to all those in\nservice; doctors, nurses, volunteers, the military, police officers and\neveryone in service \u2013 who tirelessly contributed to our community\u2019s welfare and\nsafety during these perilous times. This pandemic has brought upon a barrier\nfrom reuniting with our loved ones, but we must all unite in spirit to overcome\nits challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ngreatest gift we can give each other this Christmas is assuring the shared\nsafety of ourselves and our loved ones by adhering to the COVID-19 guidelines.\nIn the midst of all the challenges of 2020, I hope the Christmas spirit fills\nall your hearts with positivity, courage, and hope for the new year ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May\nyou all have a peaceful, safe and merry Christmas! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister of the Democratic\nSocialist Republic of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka The birth of Christ represents peace, forgiveness, mercy, and above all, hope. May this year\u2019s Christmas be our promise of hope renewed. It is a time to spread joy and goodwill while appreciating our blessings in the presence of our loved ones. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahinda-rajapaksa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110068","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=110068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}