{"id":146793,"date":"2024-12-23T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T00:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=146793"},"modified":"2024-12-23T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T00:28:48","slug":"is-ngo-activist-insinuating-that-akd-is-suffering-from-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/12\/23\/is-ngo-activist-insinuating-that-akd-is-suffering-from-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Is NGO Activist Insinuating that AKD is Suffering from Dementia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Citizen Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>With a protracted article by a NGO activist on dementia, the question is being widely asked whether a snide reference is being made to AKD, especially in the light of a power struggle with \u2018late\u2019 Harini who, like what Bush (Jnr) did to the US, shames Sri Lanka with her appalling knowledge of geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NGO activist was perhaps referring to AKD\u2019s speech in 2014 on India which can be viewed on the following link. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hEOxLXE0X8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hEOxLXE0X8Q<\/a> &nbsp;<\/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\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CHAPA on Geopolitics! JVP- NPP! 2014, Anura aginst India! Dec 18, 2024, Episode 168\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hEOxLXE0X8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Citizen Perera With a protracted article by a NGO activist on dementia, the question is being widely asked whether a snide reference is being made to AKD, especially in the light of a power struggle with \u2018late\u2019 Harini who, like what Bush (Jnr) did to the US, shames Sri Lanka with her appalling knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-lanka-study-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146793","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=146793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}