{"id":111251,"date":"2021-02-01T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111251"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:31:01","slug":"did-this-country-get-any-independence-from-britain-in-1948-some-new-thoughts-on-independent-sri-lanka-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/01\/did-this-country-get-any-independence-from-britain-in-1948-some-new-thoughts-on-independent-sri-lanka-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Did this country get any Independence from Britain in 1948? Some new thoughts on Independent Sri Lanka?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Sudath Gunasekara\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZUuALoAUnh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/25\/did-this-country-get-any-independence-from-britain-in-1948-some-new-thoughts-on-independent-sri-lanka-2\/\">Did this country get any Independence from Britain  in 1948? Some new thoughts on Independent Sri Lanka?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Did this country get any Independence from Britain  in 1948? Some new thoughts on Independent Sri Lanka?&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/25\/did-this-country-get-any-independence-from-britain-in-1948-some-new-thoughts-on-independent-sri-lanka-2\/embed\/#?secret=FBOVqKFpEt#?secret=ZUuALoAUnh\" data-secret=\"ZUuALoAUnh\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sudath Gunasekara\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111251","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=111251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}