{"id":95342,"date":"2019-11-18T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95342"},"modified":"2019-11-18T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:37:58","slug":"kamal-gunaratne-appointed-as-defence-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/18\/kamal-gunaratne-appointed-as-defence-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamal Gunaratne appointed as Defence Secretary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A news saying that Major General Kamal Gunaratne has been appointed as the Defence Sectary is circulating on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, when&nbsp;<em>Ceylon Today Web<\/em>&nbsp;contacted the media unit of the Defence Ministry, they denied and said they cannot confirm the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defence Ministry said that they weren&#8217;t notified about such a news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today A news saying that Major General Kamal Gunaratne has been appointed as the Defence Sectary is circulating on social media. However, when&nbsp;Ceylon Today Web&nbsp;contacted the media unit of the Defence Ministry, they denied and said they cannot confirm the news. The Defence Ministry said that they weren&#8217;t notified about such a news.<\/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-95342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95342","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=95342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}