{"id":133998,"date":"2023-04-27T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133998"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:16:52","slug":"wimal-happy-that-julie-chung-translates-his-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/27\/wimal-happy-that-julie-chung-translates-his-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimal happy that Julie Chung translates his book"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa, in response to US Ambassador Julie Chung calling his book a work of &#8216;fiction&#8217; said he was happy the US Ambassador had taken time to translate his book into English and read his work within a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/ksqMsptdvVM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ambassador Julie had tweeted about my book, with no mention of my name. I&#8217;m happy to see her interest to translate the book to English and read it in just a day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, MP Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka attacked MP Wimal Weerawansa in Parliament today over the allegations against Fonseka published in the book by Weerawansa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t sling mud at Army Commanders. He&#8217;s attempting to switch sides and secure a ministerial portfolio,&#8221; Fonseka said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response Weerawansa charged that Fonseka feels hurt as the truth of the conspiracy was revealed through his publication. &#8220;Army Commander Shavendra Silva was controlled by the US Ambassador and Sarath Fonseka,&#8221; Weerawansa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa, in response to US Ambassador Julie Chung calling his book a work of &#8216;fiction&#8217; said he was happy the US Ambassador had taken time to translate his book into English and read his work within a day. &#8220;Ambassador Julie had tweeted about my book, with no mention 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-133998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133998","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=133998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}