{"id":87253,"date":"2019-04-16T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87253"},"modified":"2019-04-16T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:53:37","slug":"sri-lankan-president-arrives-at-tirumala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/16\/sri-lankan-president-arrives-at-tirumala\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan President arrives at Tirumala"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The Hindu Business Line<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/incoming\/hhmz1z\/article26855733.ece\/alternates\/WIDE_615\/Sirisena-tirumalajpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena being received by TTD authorities on his arrival at Tirumala on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena arrived here on Tuesday to offer prayers at the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near here, a temple official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanied by his wife Jayanthi Pushpa Kumari and other family members and Lankan officials, Sirisena landed at Renigunta airport, 20 km from here, at noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid tight security, he reached the hills by road, the official told PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president would take part in the \u2018Suprabhatha\u2019 ritual and offer prayers to the presiding deity of Lord Venkateswara in the early hours Wednesday, the official added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hindu Business Line Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena being received by TTD authorities on his arrival at Tirumala on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena arrived here on Tuesday to offer prayers at the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near here, a temple official said. Accompanied by his wife Jayanthi Pushpa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87253","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=87253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}