{"id":130297,"date":"2022-11-29T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130297"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:08:06","slug":"president-ranil-wickremesinghe-prepared-to-re-introduce-district-development-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/29\/president-ranil-wickremesinghe-prepared-to-re-introduce-district-development-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ranil Wickremesinghe prepared to re-introduce District Development Councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that he is prepared to re-introduce District Development Councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Wickremesinghe speaking in Parliament made the announcement in response to a request made by former President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President Sirisena said District Development Councils could play a better role in working with the rural population of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that he is prepared to re-introduce District Development Councils. President Wickremesinghe speaking in Parliament made the announcement in response to a request made by former President Maithripala Sirisena. Former President Sirisena said District Development Councils could play a better role in working with the rural population of [&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-130297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130297","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=130297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}