{"id":152896,"date":"2025-11-07T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152896"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:40:58","slug":"mp-archchuna-busy-sleeping-during-akds-budget-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/07\/mp-archchuna-busy-sleeping-during-akds-budget-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Archchuna busy sleeping during AKD\u2019s budget speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Nov. 7 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Member of Parliament from the Jaffna district Dr. Ramanathan Archchuna, was seen fast asleep during the budget speech, which concluded a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation of the 2026 Budget commenced at 1.30 p.m. and continued until nearly 6.00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The budget speech was presented by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.<\/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=\"MP Archchuna busy sleeping during AKD\u2019s budget speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WPe_pvBg8bI?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>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Nov. 7 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Member of Parliament from the Jaffna district Dr. Ramanathan Archchuna, was seen fast asleep during the budget speech, which concluded a short while ago. The presentation of the 2026 Budget commenced at 1.30 p.m. and continued until nearly 6.00 p.m. The budget speech was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152896","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=152896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152897,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152896\/revisions\/152897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}