{"id":134586,"date":"2023-05-25T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134586"},"modified":"2023-05-25T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:23:49","slug":"women-brought-to-support-jalani-premdasa-remain-clueless-as-to-why-they-gathered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/05\/25\/women-brought-to-support-jalani-premdasa-remain-clueless-as-to-why-they-gathered\/","title":{"rendered":"Women brought to support Jalani Premdasa remain clueless as to why they gathered"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A large group of women who gathered in Colombo in support of Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa&#8217;s wife, Jalani Premadasa said they had no idea as to why they had gathered in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The women representing Colombo North said they had gathered to protest against a mud-slinging campaign against Mrs Premadasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, most elderly women in the group appeared to be clueless as to why they had gathered in Colombo.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m here. They asked us to come, we came,&#8221; one woman said when questioned by reporters.<\/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\/AQl1bJIEQos\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror A large group of women who gathered in Colombo in support of Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa&#8217;s wife, Jalani Premadasa said they had no idea as to why they had gathered in Colombo. The women representing Colombo North said they had gathered to protest against a mud-slinging campaign against Mrs Premadasa. However, [&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-134586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134586","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=134586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}