{"id":101748,"date":"2024-09-21T03:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/21\/voting-under-way-in-first-sri-lanka-election-since-economic-collapse\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T03:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T07:04:04","slug":"voting-under-way-in-first-sri-lanka-election-since-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/21\/voting-under-way-in-first-sri-lanka-election-since-economic-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting under way in first Sri Lanka election since economic collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sri Lanka began voting in its first presidential election Saturday since the country&rsquo;s economic collapse, with the unpopular IMF austerity plan at the forefront of voters&rsquo; minds. President Ranil Wickremesinghe faces stiff competition as his belt-tightening measures, while stabilizing the economy, have left millions struggling, sparking support for opposition candidates promising political change.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka began voting in its first presidential election Saturday since the country&rsquo;s economic collapse, with the unpopular IMF austerity plan at the forefront of voters&rsquo; minds. President Ranil Wickremesinghe faces stiff competition as his belt-tightening measures, while stabilizing the economy, have left millions struggling, sparking support for opposition candidates promising political change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-101748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}