{"id":46117,"date":"2022-07-07T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/07\/the-family-took-over-how-a-feuding-ruling-dynasty-drove-sri-lanka-to-ruin"},"modified":"2022-07-07T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:00:37","slug":"the-family-took-over-how-a-feuding-ruling-dynasty-drove-sri-lanka-to-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46117","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The family took over\u2019: how a feuding ruling dynasty drove Sri Lanka to ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inside story of Rajapaksa family infighting that toppled a country into violence and bankruptcy<\/p>\n<p>Dilith Jayaweera can still recall the moment he realised Sri Lanka was hurtling, unstoppably, towards financial ruin.<\/p>\n<p>It was around October 2021 and Jayaweera, a Sri Lankan media magnate and close friend of the Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, had invited Basil Rajapaksa, the president\u2019s younger brother, who was also the finance minister, to join him for dinner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/07\/the-family-took-over-how-a-feuding-ruling-dynasty-drove-sri-lanka-to-ruin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inside story of Rajapaksa family infighting that toppled a country into violence and bankruptcyDilith Jayaweera can still recall the moment he realised Sri Lanka was hurtling, unstoppably, towards financial ruin.It was around October 2021 and Jayaw&#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":[80,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46117","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=46117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46118,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46117\/revisions\/46118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}