{"id":126423,"date":"2022-06-23T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126423"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T22:00:07","slug":"i-was-always-labelled-as-a-racist-%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%80-%e0%b7%84%e0%b7%90%e0%b6%b8-%e0%b6%b4%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8a%e0%b7%82%e0%b6%ba%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b8-%e0%b6%91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/23\/i-was-always-labelled-as-a-racist-%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%80-%e0%b7%84%e0%b7%90%e0%b6%b8-%e0%b6%b4%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8a%e0%b7%82%e0%b6%ba%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b8-%e0%b6%91\/","title":{"rendered":"I was always labelled as a racist &#8220;\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dc0 \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0db8 \u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0db8 \u0d91\u0dbd\u0dd9\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dcf &#8211; \u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dc0\u0dbd \u0d89\u0db3\u0dbd\u0dcf \u0dbb\u0da7\u0da7 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da9 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0db6\u0dd1 &#8211; Wijesdasa Rajapaksa (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dr. Wijedasa Rajapaksa, Minister of Justice, Prisons and Constitutional Reforms states that the constitution as well as the structure of political parties should be changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing an awareness seminar on the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, the Minister said that the political parties in the country were not based on principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dc0 \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0db8 \u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0db8 \u0d91\u0dbd\u0dd9\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dcf - \u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dc0\u0dbd \u0d89\u0db3\u0dbd\u0dcf \u0dbb\u0da7\u0da7 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da9 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0db6\u0dd1 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEA1TjSaEFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Dr. Wijedasa Rajapaksa, Minister of Justice, Prisons and Constitutional Reforms states that the constitution as well as the structure of political parties should be changed. Addressing an awareness seminar on the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, the Minister said that the political parties in the country were not based on principles.<\/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-126423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126423","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=126423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}