{"id":47349,"date":"2015-08-26T06:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47349"},"modified":"2015-08-26T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T13:46:09","slug":"kumara-welgama-ready-to-accept-the-opposition-leader-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/26\/kumara-welgama-ready-to-accept-the-opposition-leader-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumara Welgama ready to accept the opposition leader post"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Former Minister Kumara Welgama says that he is ready to accept the opposition leader post.<\/p>\n<p>Welgama told Ada Derana that he is of the view that he is the most appropriate for the post under the current political situation of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Welgama obtained the highest preferential votes (218,614) from the Kalutara Polling District under the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) ticket at the General Election 2015.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I&#039;m  ready to take the opposition leader post: Welgama\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4DNYPco5xOE?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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Former Minister Kumara Welgama says that he is ready to accept the opposition leader post. Welgama told Ada Derana that he is of the view that he is the most appropriate for the post under the current political situation of the country. Welgama obtained the highest preferential votes (218,614) from the Kalutara Polling District [&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-47349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349","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=47349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}