{"id":45874,"date":"2015-07-18T00:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T07:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45874"},"modified":"2015-07-18T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:46:45","slug":"mahindas-resolve-mahindas-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/18\/mahindas-resolve-mahindas-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda\u2019s Resolve. Mahinda\u2019s\u00a0Duty."},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 id=\"site-title\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>THE WAY AHEAD FOR SRI LANKA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa received a hero\u2019s welcome on July 17, as he returned to front-line politics greeted by rapturous applause, undivided attention, and above all, unshaken party unity and loyalty. It was a sight to behold.<\/p>\n<p>The thousands upon thousands of ordinary citizens, the host of party workers, the legion of MPs, the column of SLFP\/UPFA leaders, all heard the call and all knew what to do. They rallied around their leader, their true, real, leader. Desperate attempts to stop that historical moment \u2013 nomination machinations, televised back-stabs, cheap personal insults \u2013 failed abysmally.<\/p>\n<p>For Full Reort<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lankafuture.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/18\/mahindas-resolve-mahindas-duty\/\">https:\/\/lankafuture.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/18\/mahindas-resolve-mahindas-duty\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WAY AHEAD FOR SRI LANKA Mahinda Rajapaksa received a hero\u2019s welcome on July 17, as he returned to front-line politics greeted by rapturous applause, undivided attention, and above all, unshaken party unity and loyalty. It was a sight to behold. The thousands upon thousands of ordinary citizens, the host of party workers, the legion [&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-45874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45874","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=45874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}