{"id":125590,"date":"2022-05-22T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125590"},"modified":"2022-05-22T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T23:55:03","slug":"in-pics-pettah-market-amid-economic-crisis-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/22\/in-pics-pettah-market-amid-economic-crisis-in-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"In pics: Pettah Market amid economic crisis in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, May 21 (Xinhua): &nbsp;Pettah Market is one of Sri Lanka\u2019s most important and busiest commodity hubs in Colombo, &nbsp;where one can find a wide variety of goods. Due to the economic crisis, business in Pettah Market is not as prosperous as before, but the wholesale food market, which is closely related to the lives of locals, is still very busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some scenes from Pettah as captured by Xinhua photographer Tang Lu:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pettah-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74412\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Tang Lu\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pettah-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74413\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Tang Lu\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pettah-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74414\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Tang Lu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pettah-5-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74415\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Tang Lu\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pettah-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74416\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Tang Lu\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 21 (Xinhua): &nbsp;Pettah Market is one of Sri Lanka\u2019s most important and busiest commodity hubs in Colombo, &nbsp;where one can find a wide variety of goods. Due to the economic crisis, business in Pettah Market is not as prosperous as before, but the wholesale food market, which is closely related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125590","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=125590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}