{"id":46313,"date":"2022-07-12T17:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-fails-attempt-flee-airport"},"modified":"2022-07-13T06:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:49:30","slug":"sri-lankas-gotabaya-rajapaksa-fails-in-effort-to-flee-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46313","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajapaksa, 73, and his wife boarded a special air force flight bound for the Maldives, local officials said<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has flown out of the country, heading to the neighbouring Maldives, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old leader, his wife and a bodyguard were among four passengers on board an Antonov-32 Sri Lankan military aircraft which took off from Colombo\u2019s international airport on Tuesday, immigration officials told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-fails-attempt-flee-airport\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajapaksa, 73, and his wife boarded a special air force flight bound for the Maldives, local officials saidSri Lanka\u2019s embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has flown out of the country, heading to the neighbouring Maldives, according to local officia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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-46313","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\/46313","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46352,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46313\/revisions\/46352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}