{"id":71432,"date":"2019-09-30T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=71432"},"modified":"2019-09-30T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T11:10:36","slug":"sri-lankas-former-army-commander-general-mahesh-senanayake-joins-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sri-lankas-former-army-commander-general-mahesh-senanayake-joins-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s former Army Commander General Mahesh Senanayake joins Presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s former Army Commander General Mahesh Senanayake on Sunday joined  the Presidential race after being named candidate of the National People&#8217;s Movement . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NPM is a collective of civil organizations and was created last year in order to promote national unity, achieve religious and ethnic harmony and reconciliation, develop a new political leadership and identify the most suitable individuals to lead the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movement said they decided upon the candidate to fulfill all Sri Lankans hopes with all the criteria that the presidential candidate must possess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, General Senanayake said that contesting at the Presidential election was a collective decision and it was not a personal decision. He  became the 22nd Commander of the Army in June 2017 and retired last month from nearly 38 years of service in Sri Lanka Army.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s former Army Commander General Mahesh Senanayake on Sunday joined the Presidential race after being named candidate of the National People&#8217;s Movement . The NPM is a collective of civil organizations and was created last year in order to promote national unity, achieve religious and ethnic harmony and reconciliation, develop a new political leadership [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71434,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432\/revisions\/71434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}