{"id":59582,"date":"2016-10-10T23:53:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59582"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:29:04","slug":"presidents-delegation-to-us-included-73-only-palace-dog-didnt-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/10\/presidents-delegation-to-us-included-73-only-palace-dog-didnt-go\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s delegation to US included 73; only \u2018palace dog\u2019 didn\u2019t go"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"newsDateStamp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">October 8, 2016\u00a0\u00a006:00 pm<\/p>\n<div class=\"bookmarkIcon\">UPFA MP Udaya Gammanpila says that President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s recent delegation to the United States, to take part in the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly, included 73 people and that only the palace dog\u201d was missing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Addressing the \u2018Joint Opposition\u2019 public rally in Ratnapura today (8), the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s golden age\u201d will be in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are now competing to travel around the world because they will have to go home defeated if an election is held.<\/p>\n<p>Gammanpila stated that when one of them is leaving the country the other is arriving, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>He said that only the palace dog\u201d was not part of the recent visit to the US and that when the President returned from there, the PM went to New Zealand. When he came back, the President flew to Thailand and now the Prime Minister is preparing to visit Belgium when the President returns, he charged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana October 8, 2016\u00a0\u00a006:00 pm UPFA MP Udaya Gammanpila says that President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s recent delegation to the United States, to take part in the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly, included 73 people and that only the palace dog\u201d was missing. Addressing the \u2018Joint Opposition\u2019 public rally in Ratnapura today (8), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582","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=59582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}