{"id":74276,"date":"2018-02-01T06:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74276"},"modified":"2018-02-01T06:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:36:09","slug":"whats-said-at-election-time-shouldnt-be-taken-seriously-ravi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/01\/whats-said-at-election-time-shouldnt-be-taken-seriously-ravi\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s said at election time shouldn\u2019t be taken seriously: Ravi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><strong>A<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>jith Siriwardana\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>United National Party (UNP) MP Ravi Karunanayake said yesterday whatever the President or the Prime Minister said during this election period should not be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>He said that was a matter to be considered after the election.<\/p>\n<p>What is said by the President or the Prime Minister during election time should not be taken seriously. We will have to consider these matters in the future,\u201d he told journalists during an election campaign at Bloemendhal.<\/p>\n<p>He said this in response to a question about the Marapana Committee recommendations about assistant leadership of the UNP.\u00a0<em><strong>()<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajith Siriwardana\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror United National Party (UNP) MP Ravi Karunanayake said yesterday whatever the President or the Prime Minister said during this election period should not be taken seriously. He said that was a matter to be considered after the election. What is said by the President or the Prime Minister during election [&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-74276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74276","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=74276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}