{"id":66672,"date":"2017-06-06T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66672"},"modified":"2017-06-06T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T22:08:56","slug":"invitation-to-celebrate-ramadahan-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/06\/invitation-to-celebrate-ramadahan-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"INVITATION TO CELEBRATE RAMADAHAN FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Ranjith Soysa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Attn the Consul General for Sri Lanka in LA<\/p>\n<p>Dear Consul General<\/p>\n<p>At a time when over 650,000 citizens of Sri Lanka had been directly affected by the recent floods in seven districts with over 200 deaths and many more missing -the worst natural disaster faced by Sri Lanka since Tzunami- it is indeed a shame to have celebrations party spending public funds like what you are proposing to do.<\/p>\n<p>I kindly request you to CANCEL the proposed celebrations and CONSIDER having a program to collect funds for the disaster victims and initiate a scheme to control the\u00a0 expenditure incurred by the Consul General office so that the poor tax payers and the general public in Sri Lanka will benefit.<\/p>\n<p>This is the preferred way to justify your political obligations to the party in power and to the Nation as obviously you were selected the position of Consul General owing to your political affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>Ranjith Soysa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjith Soysa Attn the Consul General for Sri Lanka in LA Dear Consul General At a time when over 650,000 citizens of Sri Lanka had been directly affected by the recent floods in seven districts with over 200 deaths and many more missing -the worst natural disaster faced by Sri Lanka since Tzunami- it is [&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-66672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66672","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=66672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}