{"id":21380,"date":"2020-08-05T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/sri-lanka-election-vote-coronavirus-rajapaksa"},"modified":"2020-08-05T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:13:53","slug":"stay-apart-and-bring-a-pen-sri-lanka-goes-to-the-polls-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21380","title":{"rendered":"Stay apart and bring a pen: Sri Lanka goes to the polls during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajapaksa expected to dominate elections held five months after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa sacked parliamentary assembly <\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankans have begun voting in parliamentary elections twice delayed by the coronavirus, with results expected to further entrench the Rajapaksa family\u2019s dominance of the island\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p>Voters have been asked to observe social distancing and bring their own pens to the polls \u2013 with special booths set up for those who are quarantining \u2013 for a contest that will end months of constitutional limbo in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/sri-lanka-election-vote-coronavirus-rajapaksa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajapaksa expected to dominate elections held five months after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa sacked parliamentary assembly Sri Lankans have begun voting in parliamentary elections twice delayed by the coronavirus, with results expected to further entre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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-21380","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\/21380","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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21381,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21380\/revisions\/21381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}