{"id":68045,"date":"2017-07-20T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68045"},"modified":"2017-07-20T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T21:52:28","slug":"prime-ministers-office-opens-public-relations-divisionnews-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/20\/prime-ministers-office-opens-public-relations-divisionnews-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister\u2019s Office opens Public Relations Division\u2026\u2026\u2026News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Need of the hour \u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Public is out of touch with governing politicians and only way they can meet top level politicians is when they go on demonstrations and HE and PM invite then for discussions. It is also good that well-dressed Ex Mrs World in her prime meet the public .Public, may forget why they came for when they are mesmerised during the encounter ?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-68046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sarath2007171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sarath2007171.jpg 763w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sarath2007171-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is also good to know that the government wants to enhance public relations as the current relationship is not at\u00a0 the best .Bond scam .Garbage fiasco ,Salawa tragedy ,Dengue management ,Saitm issue ,never ending public demonstration causing much hardship to people has not created a good impression .Hence little pep talk may be helpful .Question is whether public has to reserve a time to meet the officers via online access portal like  Chanelling a Doctor  ?<\/p>\n<p>All the questions raised at the Public Relations Office should also be placed in a online portal so that people do not have to repeat the same issue when they meet the officers.<\/p>\n<p>When I go , I will take a nice bouquet of flowers to the lady and try to win her heart before I present my case<\/p>\n<p>How is that ?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Need of the hour \u2026\u2026.. Public is out of touch with governing politicians and only way they can meet top level politicians is when they go on demonstrations and HE and PM invite then for discussions. It is also good that well-dressed Ex Mrs World in her prime meet the public .Public, [&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-68045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68045","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=68045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}