{"id":147819,"date":"2025-02-06T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147819"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:58:18","slug":"lasanthas-widow-sonali-samarasinghe-tipped-to-be-appointed-as-diplomat-in-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/06\/lasanthas-widow-sonali-samarasinghe-tipped-to-be-appointed-as-diplomat-in-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasantha\u2019s widow, Sonali Samarasinghe tipped to be appointed as diplomat in UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Slain Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge&#8217;s widow Sonali Samarasinghe is tipped to be appointed as Minister Counsellor at Sri Lanka&#8217;s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, the Daily Mirror learns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appointment comes in the wake of the Attorney General taking steps to release three suspects from the charges regarding the murder of Wickrematunge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is apparently miffed by the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Slain Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge&#8217;s widow Sonali Samarasinghe is tipped to be appointed as Minister Counsellor at Sri Lanka&#8217;s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, the Daily Mirror learns.&nbsp; The appointment comes in the wake of the Attorney General taking steps to release three suspects from the charges [&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-147819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147819","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=147819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}