{"id":128083,"date":"2022-08-22T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128083"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:54:58","slug":"sri-lankan-president-wickremesinghe-calls-rajapaksa-to-facilitate-his-return-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/08\/22\/sri-lankan-president-wickremesinghe-calls-rajapaksa-to-facilitate-his-return-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe calls Rajapaksa to facilitate his return: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy One India<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reached out to his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to finalise arrangements and facilitate his return to the crisis-hit country, a media report said on Monday. Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country and resigned last month in the face of a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the island nation&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country and resigned last month in the face of a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the island nation&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/international\/sri-lankan-president-wickremesinghe-calls-rajapaksa-to-facilitate-his-return-reports-3451558.html\">https:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/international\/sri-lankan-president-wickremesinghe-calls-rajapaksa-to-facilitate-his-return-reports-3451558.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy One India Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reached out to his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to finalise arrangements and facilitate his return to the crisis-hit country, a media report said on Monday. Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country and resigned last month in the face of a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128083","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=128083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}