{"id":64535,"date":"2017-03-24T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64535"},"modified":"2017-03-24T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:43:37","slug":"change-we-all-are-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/24\/change-we-all-are-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Change we all are waiting for \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Media keeps our mind boggling about an impending change of the ministers ,who have failed miserably .<\/p>\n<p>Tell me about any ,minister except the one in charge of health who has done something and yet the Saitm issue has suppressed his popularity .Minister of finance during night raids in customs has been nominated an award for handling  bond matter  .Transport and Rail minister is sleeping all the time .Road minister in going nowhere .Trade minister accused of land grab in a national park .Sports minister being accused of ruining sports,Port minister who should have been the S(ports) minister playing the ball all over ,( we call it slogging ) about all the ports ,Tourist Minister washing his hands off Sigiriya Fiasco, Education minister trying to undress the traditional white uniform ,Megapolis is still not showing much colours other than creating a short lived bus lane\u00a0 and who else??<\/p>\n<p>There are so many of them and we do not know what the other portfolios are !<\/p>\n<p>At least for the Sinhala New Year we want to hear good news where the non performing ministers are shuffled and we in Sri Lanka can celebrate our new year with a new feeling<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Media keeps our mind boggling about an impending change of the ministers ,who have failed miserably . Tell me about any ,minister except the one in charge of health who has done something and yet the Saitm issue has suppressed his popularity .Minister of finance during night raids in customs has been [&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-64535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64535","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=64535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}