{"id":117140,"date":"2021-08-15T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117140"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T22:15:29","slug":"sri-lankan-teenager-builds-solar-powered-tuk-tuk-from-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/15\/sri-lankan-teenager-builds-solar-powered-tuk-tuk-from-scraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy BBC<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A 15-year-old from Sri Lanka has spent his Covid lockdown building a solar-powered tuk-tuk. The best part is that Suntharalingam Piranawan used scraps for his homemade vehicle &#8211; and it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-asia-58192468\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-asia-58192468<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video by BBC Sinhala\u2019s Suneth Perera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy BBC A 15-year-old from Sri Lanka has spent his Covid lockdown building a solar-powered tuk-tuk. The best part is that Suntharalingam Piranawan used scraps for his homemade vehicle &#8211; and it works. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-asia-58192468 Video by BBC Sinhala\u2019s Suneth Perera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117140","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=117140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}