{"id":62962,"date":"2017-02-01T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62962"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:28:14","slug":"property-in-ireland-i-wont-respond-to-fb-claims-anura-kumara-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/01\/property-in-ireland-i-wont-respond-to-fb-claims-anura-kumara-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Property in Ireland: I won&#8217;t respond to FB claims: Anura Kumara\u2026\u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeyseekra<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When I read above story ,I was wondering to know how JVP feels and felt they were mudslinging in seventies and eighties at public figures<\/p>\n<p>I would like to elaborate an incident which concerned me as well .I worked many years in UK and acquired a property with hard earned money .I came back to Sri Lanka after 1989 and worked in two establishments. A person who had vested interest in the places where I worked wanted to sling mud at me .Bought a ticket and went to UK and took photograph of my house and published in Yuktiya paper run by JVL affiliated people ( I think it is Sunanada Deshapriya) and with allegation that I used public money to buy properties in UK .I wrote to them and admitted that it is my house .<\/p>\n<p>Sad thing is they never mentioned that I worked in UK and it is my own money I used to acquire the property .<\/p>\n<p>I write this with responsibility and strand by what I say<\/p>\n<p>JVL now is facing similar song and I wonder how they feel about it<\/p>\n<p>FB was one of their effective tool during last election to make allegations and now they try to wash their hand off\u00a0\u00a0 ??<\/p>\n<p>If he is not guilty he should either say no this is a different Anura Kumara\u201d or that it is my house and I bought it from party funds  or I got a present from Castro\u201d !!<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeyseekra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeyseekra When I read above story ,I was wondering to know how JVP feels and felt they were mudslinging in seventies and eighties at public figures I would like to elaborate an incident which concerned me as well .I worked many years in UK and acquired a property with hard earned money .I [&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-62962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62962","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=62962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}