{"id":127175,"date":"2022-07-21T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127175"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:17:32","slug":"unp-leader-ranil-wickremesinghe-sworn-in-as-the-8th-executive-president-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/21\/unp-leader-ranil-wickremesinghe-sworn-in-as-the-8th-executive-president-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe&amp;nbsp;was sworn in today (21) as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was at the Parliament complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe&amp;nbsp;is the first President of Sri Lanka to be elected in a vote held in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former MP Sirima Bandaranaike, the world&#8217;s first Prime Minister, was sworn in on July 21, 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, Ranil Wickramasinghe was first elected to Parliament on 21 July 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe&amp;nbsp;was sworn in today (21) as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka. This was at the Parliament complex. Ranil Wickremesinghe&amp;nbsp;is the first President of Sri Lanka to be elected in a vote held in the Parliament. Former MP Sirima Bandaranaike, the world&#8217;s first Prime Minister, was sworn in [&hellip;]<\/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-127175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127175","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=127175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}