{"id":156883,"date":"2020-08-18T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/18\/whole-of-sri-lanka-hit-by-power-blackout\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T02:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:00:51","slug":"whole-of-sri-lanka-hit-by-power-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156883","title":{"rendered":"Whole of Sri Lanka hit by power blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water supply and road traffic disrupted for seven hours after main power station suffers \u2018technical issue\u2019The entire nation of Sri Lanka was left without power on Monday for seven hours after a failure at a key electricity facility.Power minister Dullas Alahapperuma said an unspecified \u201ctechnical issue\u201d at the Kerawalapitiya power complex just outside the capital Colombo was the cause of the blackout, which hit the entire nation of 21 million people at about midday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/whole-of-sri-lanka-hit-by-huge-power-blackout\" target=\"_blank\">Whole of Sri Lanka hit by power blackout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water supply and road traffic disrupted for seven hours after main power station suffers \u2018technical issue\u2019The entire nation of Sri Lanka was left without power on Monday for seven hours after a failure at a key electricity facility.Power minister Dullas Alahapperuma said an unspecified \u201ctechnical issue\u201d at the Kerawalapitiya power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}