{"id":132909,"date":"2023-03-13T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132909"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:54:04","slug":"govt-to-double-mid-day-meals-for-school-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/13\/govt-to-double-mid-day-meals-for-school-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. to double mid-day meals for school children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A national program that currently provides a mid-day meal for schoolchildren will be doubled from the start of the next school term, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the ministry is currently providing a mid-day meal for 1.1 million schoolchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program was kicked off in January with the support of US AID, the World Food Program (WFP), and the government.&nbsp;<strong>(Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror A national program that currently provides a mid-day meal for schoolchildren will be doubled from the start of the next school term, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said. He said the ministry is currently providing a mid-day meal for 1.1 million schoolchildren. The program was kicked off in January with the support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132909","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=132909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}