{"id":42111,"date":"2022-03-02T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/milk-sachets-chicken-fuel-basics-slip-out-of-reach-for-sri-lankans-as-economic-crisis-bites"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:00:32","slug":"milk-sachets-chicken-fuel-basics-slip-out-of-reach-for-sri-lankans-as-economic-crisis-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42111","title":{"rendered":"Milk sachets, chicken, fuel: basics slip out of reach for Sri Lankans as economic crisis bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country is in the midst of one of the worst financial crises in decades, exacerbated by a tourism collapse in the wake of Covid<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Shamla Laxman, 54, has been rising at dawn or staying out late at night. She is on the prowl for an item that has become rarer than gold dust in Sri Lanka\u2019s commercial capital of Colombo in recent weeks: sachets of milk powder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese days it\u2019s become impossible to find, and when you do find it in a shop, the prices are so expensive, double or triple what it was before, that I can\u2019t afford it for my family,\u201d said Laxman, who feeds a family of seven in her small house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/milk-sachets-chicken-fuel-basics-slip-out-of-reach-for-sri-lankans-as-economic-crisis-bites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country is in the midst of one of the worst financial crises in decades, exacerbated by a tourism collapse in the wake of CovidIn recent weeks, Shamla Laxman, 54, has been rising at dawn or staying out late at night. She is on the prowl for an item&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"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":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42111","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\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42112,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42111\/revisions\/42112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}