{"id":11037,"date":"2019-11-13T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T01:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/13\/sri-lankas-presidential-election-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T01:58:22","slug":"sri-lankas-presidential-election-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11037","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s presidential election: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters still reeling from the devastating Easter Sunday attacks must choose between two powerful political families <\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka goes to the polls on Saturday for a presidential election that will be a decisive moment for its future. The country is still reeling from the Easter Sunday bombings of April 2019, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/25\/death-toll-in-sri-lanka-bombings-revised-down-to-253\">more than 250 people died<\/a>, as well as 18 months of political instability and infighting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/13\/sri-lankas-presidential-election-what-you-need-to-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters still reeling from the devastating Easter Sunday attacks must choose between two powerful political families Sri Lanka goes to the polls on Saturday for a presidential election that will be a decisive moment for its future. The country is still &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11038,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions\/11038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}