{"id":88849,"date":"2019-05-15T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88849"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:02:37","slug":"political-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/15\/political-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Political hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It is sad to see how politicians behave.Some government\nministers and MP\u2019s were criticising the Leader for running away from the\ncountry during the most needed times in the country&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday when I saw TV clippings I saw two prominent ministers sitting in a meeting with our \u00a0president during the discussion with Chinese President <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference is supposed to be about Asian Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does a minister of justice and another prominent minister\nfrom east was also sitting in such &nbsp;meeting !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statements made by The Eminent cardinal and some Buddhist\nclergy have been very critical about the &nbsp;leaders in the country for\ninability to tackle the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whole country is helpless when we have have such leaders ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 It is sad to see how politicians behave.Some government ministers and MP\u2019s were criticising the Leader for running away from the country during the most needed times in the country&nbsp; Yesterday when I saw TV clippings I saw two prominent ministers sitting in a meeting with our \u00a0president during the discussion with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849","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=88849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}