{"id":63150,"date":"2017-02-07T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63150"},"modified":"2017-02-07T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:11:11","slug":"medias-darling-says-he-is-darling-only-to-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/07\/medias-darling-says-he-is-darling-only-to-his-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Media\u2019s darling\u2019 says he is darling only to his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"article_date\">Courtesy The Island<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"article_date\">February 7, 2017, 7:43 am<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/1598806226GamniWije1.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AG Gamini Wijesinghe in a pensive mood at an event at the Colombo Mayor\u2019s residence. (right) Wijesinghe lashing out at corrupt elements (Pics by Nishan S. Priyantha)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe yesterday said that he was darling only to his wife. Referring to a recent remark by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake that the AG is the darling of the media, a smiling Wijesinghe stressed that he had to address issues which attracted media attention. Addressing a group of senior staff of the Colombo Municipal Council at the Mayor\u2019s Residence, Wijesinghe said that he would have to be cautious due to the presence of the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island February 7, 2017, 7:43 am AG Gamini Wijesinghe in a pensive mood at an event at the Colombo Mayor\u2019s residence. (right) Wijesinghe lashing out at corrupt elements (Pics by Nishan S. Priyantha) Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe yesterday said that he was darling only to his wife. Referring to a recent remark by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63150","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=63150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}