{"id":46545,"date":"2022-07-19T01:16:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/18\/ranil-wickremesinghe-wily-fox-who-became-sri-lanka-pm-six-times-profile"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:50:16","slug":"ranil-wickremesinghe-wily-fox-whos-been-sri-lankas-pm-six-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46545","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremesinghe: wily fox who is Sri Lanka\u2019s new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Profile: Six-time PM may be unacceptable to many of the same protesters who forced out predecessor<\/p>\n<p>There are few who have been stalwarts of Sri Lankan politics in the last half-century quite like the man often referred to as \u201cthe fox\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe, 73, who gained his nickname for his apparently wily ability to repeatedly resurrect his political career, has been prime minister six times since he first entered politics in 1977, though he has famously never completed a term.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/18\/ranil-wickremesinghe-wily-fox-who-became-sri-lanka-pm-six-times-profile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile: Six-time PM may be unacceptable to many of the same protesters who forced out predecessorThere are few who have been stalwarts of Sri Lankan politics in the last half-century quite like the man often referred to as \u201cthe fox\u201d.Ranil Wickremesing&#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-46545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","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\/46545","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=46545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46594,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545\/revisions\/46594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}