{"id":47315,"date":"2015-08-25T04:22:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47315"},"modified":"2015-08-25T04:22:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:22:13","slug":"maithri-offers-to-appoint-sanga-sri-lankan-high-commissioner-to-the-uk-and-sanga-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/25\/maithri-offers-to-appoint-sanga-sri-lankan-high-commissioner-to-the-uk-and-sanga-declines\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithri offers to appoint Sanga Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK and Sanga declines ."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hot News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday offered retiring national cricketer Kumar Sangakkara post of Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to London, a post last held by top businessman Chris Nonis.<\/p>\n<p>The offer was made in the presence of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this offer Sangakkara said he has not got sufficient experience and knowledge to accept that offer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ada Derana Prime Time News Bulletin 08.00 pm -  2015.08.24\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npzTVd0B0w4?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot News President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday offered retiring national cricketer Kumar Sangakkara post of Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to London, a post last held by top businessman Chris Nonis. The offer was made in the presence of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. In response to this offer Sangakkara said he has not got sufficient experience and [&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-47315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47315","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=47315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}