{"id":128692,"date":"2022-09-22T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T23:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128692"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T23:04:03","slug":"amid-economic-crisis-sri-lankas-inflation-rate-jumps-to-70-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/22\/amid-economic-crisis-sri-lankas-inflation-rate-jumps-to-70-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid economic crisis, Sri Lanka&#8217;s inflation rate jumps to 70.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Business Standard<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Amid the worst-ever economic crisis since the country gained independence in 1948, Sri Lanka&#8217;s inflation rate jumped to 70.2 per cent in August, official data revealed on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Business Standard Amid the worst-ever economic crisis since the country gained independence in 1948, Sri Lanka&#8217;s inflation rate jumped to 70.2 per cent in August, official data revealed on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128692","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=128692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}