{"id":81372,"date":"2018-09-25T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81372"},"modified":"2018-09-25T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:52:28","slug":"everything-from-matchbox-to-coffin-is-imported-jo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/25\/everything-from-matchbox-to-coffin-is-imported-jo\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything from matchbox to coffin is imported \u2013 JO"},"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>The current government has arrived at a point where they influence on what the public should consume, says the Joint Opposition.<\/p>\n<p>MP Shehan Semasinghe stated this at a press conference held in Colombo today (25).<\/p>\n<p>A statement made by the Prime Minister recently, it was confirmed that the incumbent government doesn\u2019t have an economic policy and has failed to develop the economy, says Semasinghe.<\/p>\n<p>MP Sisira Jayakody, who also attended the press conference, stated that the Sri Lankan Rupee depreciates by Rs 1.50 every month.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that everything from the match box to the coffin is imported.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everything from matchbox to coffin is imported - JO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ed_WrOs0Nw?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 The current government has arrived at a point where they influence on what the public should consume, says the Joint Opposition. MP Shehan Semasinghe stated this at a press conference held in Colombo today (25). A statement made by the Prime Minister recently, it was confirmed that the incumbent government doesn\u2019t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81372","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=81372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}