{"id":26753,"date":"2024-09-20T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26753"},"modified":"2024-09-20T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:48:32","slug":"basil-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26753","title":{"rendered":"Basil takes flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The founder of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, left the island early today (20).<br \/>He left Katunayake airport at 03.05 this morning on an Emirates flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Basil-Rajapaksa-2024.09.20-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Basil-Rajapaksa-2024.09.20-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Basil-Rajapaksa-2024.09.20-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Basil-Rajapaksa-2024.09.20-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Basil-Rajapaksa-2024.09.20-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Basil-Rajapaksa-2024.09.20-1-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-26753' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=26753&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-26753' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-26753' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-26753' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-26753'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-26753' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-26753 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, left the island early today (20).He left Katunayake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26755,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753\/revisions\/26755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}