{"id":131054,"date":"2023-01-01T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T23:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131054"},"modified":"2023-01-01T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T23:54:25","slug":"fonseka-makes-a-verbal-blow-at-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/01\/fonseka-makes-a-verbal-blow-at-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonseka makes a verbal blow at Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>One cannot become a leader either by driving buses or by setting fire to buses, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told this to reporters after an event today. &#8220;Driving buses is not a qualification to become a leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He (Sajith) must be getting some satisfaction by donating a bus and driving it. One cannot become leaders by driving buses or setting fire to buses,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Those things go with political culture of the country. My personal opinion is that this political culture should be changed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror One cannot become a leader either by driving buses or by setting fire to buses, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said. He told this to reporters after an event today. &#8220;Driving buses is not a qualification to become a leader. &#8220;He (Sajith) must be getting some satisfaction by donating a [&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-131054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131054","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=131054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}