{"id":66573,"date":"2018-11-10T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/10\/court-challenge-after-sri-lankan-president-dissolves-parliament\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T13:37:18","slug":"court-challenge-after-sri-lankan-president-dissolves-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=66573","title":{"rendered":"Court challenge after Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maithripala Sirisena said he was dissolving parliament and calling snap electionsThe Sri Lankan president\u2019s decision to dissolve parliament and call snap elections, his latest attempt to blast a political rival from the prime minister\u2019s office, will be challenged in the country\u2019s supreme court.A political crisis in the Indian ocean nation deepened on Friday night when Maithripala Sirisena announced he was dissolving parliament, which opponents said was an illegal order. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/10\/court-challenge-after-sri-lankan-president-dissolves-parliament\" target=\"_blank\">Court challenge after Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maithripala Sirisena said he was dissolving parliament and calling snap electionsThe Sri Lankan president\u2019s decision to dissolve parliament and call snap elections, his latest attempt to blast a political rival from the prime minister\u2019s office, will be challenged in the country\u2019s supreme court.A political crisis in the Indian ocean nation [&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-66573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66573","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=66573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}