{"id":115861,"date":"2021-07-07T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115861"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:20:37","slug":"basil-to-be-appointed-cabinet-minister-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/07\/basil-to-be-appointed-cabinet-minister-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil to be appointed Cabinet Minister tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>K<strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">elum<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Bandara\u00a0<\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>SLPP MP Basil Rajapaksa is tipped to be appointed a Cabinet Minister tomorrow morning (8) , the Daily Mirror learns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is learnt that he will be in charge of economic development and plan implementation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will continue to be the finance minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelum\u00a0Bandara\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror SLPP MP Basil Rajapaksa is tipped to be appointed a Cabinet Minister tomorrow morning (8) , the Daily Mirror learns. It is learnt that he will be in charge of economic development and plan implementation.&nbsp; Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will continue to be the finance minister.<\/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-115861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115861","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=115861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}