{"id":43790,"date":"2015-05-15T07:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43790"},"modified":"2015-05-14T23:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T06:47:29","slug":"victory-day-no-longer-a-victory-day-rajitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/15\/victory-day-no-longer-a-victory-day-rajitha\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Victory Day&#8221; no longer a &#8220;Victory Day&#8221; \u2013 Rajitha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne today said thatthe government will continue commemorating 19 May as the day that &#8220;separatism ended&#8221; and not as the &#8220;War Victory Day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne today said that they will be commemorating 19 May as the day that &#8220;separatism ended&#8221; and not as the &#8220;War Victory Day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations will be held in Matara.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the government will be commemorating this day to honour the men and women who sacrificed their lives and who was disabled in the course to save the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne today said thatthe government will continue commemorating 19 May as the day that &#8220;separatism ended&#8221; and not as the &#8220;War Victory Day&#8221;. Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne today said that they will be commemorating 19 May as the day that &#8220;separatism ended&#8221; and not as the &#8220;War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43790","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=43790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}