{"id":126266,"date":"2022-06-14T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126266"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T22:49:13","slug":"gazette-to-be-issued-lifting-ban-on-angampora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/14\/gazette-to-be-issued-lifting-ban-on-angampora\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazette to be issued lifting ban on \u2018Angampora\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"td-author-by\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ceylontoday.lk\/author\/rebecca\/\">Rebecca Pavey Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"td-author-line\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126267\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet today (14) approved a proposal to issue a Gazette lifting the ban on \u2018Angampora\u2019 martial art, a traditional game that was banned under British rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relevant proposal was tabled by the Minister of Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A similar proposal to lift the ban imposed on the game was approved in 2019, however the relevant Gazette is yet to be published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Pavey Courtesy Ceylon Today \u00a0 The Cabinet today (14) approved a proposal to issue a Gazette lifting the ban on \u2018Angampora\u2019 martial art, a traditional game that was banned under British rule. The relevant proposal was tabled by the Minister of Sports. A similar proposal to lift the ban imposed on the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126266","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=126266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}