{"id":79594,"date":"2018-07-25T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79594"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T23:00:45","slug":"removal-of-my-name-from-galle-pavilion-is-not-an-issue-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/25\/removal-of-my-name-from-galle-pavilion-is-not-an-issue-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Removal of my name from Galle pavilion is not an issue \u2013 Mahinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/14\/charunya-rajakaruna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the removal of his name from the Galle stadium is not an issue.<\/p>\n<p>He said this at a media conference held in Homagama, today (25).<\/p>\n<p>Former President paid his last respects to the remains of the Homagama Purana Vihara Chief Prelate Ven. Madowita Pannakitti Thero.<\/p>\n<p>Answering questions raised by media, he stated that the fine laboratories build under the name \u2018Mahindodaya\u2019 has also been removed of their name and that \u2018Mahindodaya\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Removal of my name from Galle pavilion is not an issue - Mahinda  (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GaA4lz4u1eI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the removal of his name from the Galle stadium is not an issue. He said this at a media conference held in Homagama, today (25). Former President paid his last respects to the remains of the Homagama Purana Vihara Chief Prelate Ven. Madowita Pannakitti Thero. Answering [&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-79594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79594","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=79594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}