{"id":99154,"date":"2020-02-20T16:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99154"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:57:10","slug":"thank-you-president-for-reversing-decision-on-sainthamaruthu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/20\/thank-you-president-for-reversing-decision-on-sainthamaruthu\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you President for Reversing Decision on Sainthamaruthu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government has taken a\ncourageous decision to halt the establishment of Sainthamaruthu Urban Council.\nEven though it is temporary, it is a good decision that must be appreciated. It\ntakes courage to admit one faulted and quickly correct it. No damage was done.\nPrevious presidents simply continued their wrongs fearing the public. They\nlacked courage in that regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the future, the government must consider the consequences of decisions before they are made. That would save time and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those making fun of the\npresident over the reversal must consider how many times they had the courage\nto admit a wrong and correct it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Excellency the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa deserves a thank you for a wise and courageous decision. Hopefully, it is not a temporary fix to a permanent problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara The government has taken a courageous decision to halt the establishment of Sainthamaruthu Urban Council. Even though it is temporary, it is a good decision that must be appreciated. It takes courage to admit one faulted and quickly correct it. No damage was done. Previous presidents simply continued their wrongs fearing the public. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99154","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=99154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}