{"id":151723,"date":"2015-10-02T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T09:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=151723"},"modified":"2015-10-09T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T07:25:21","slug":"the-new-cutout-king-posters-praise-sirisena-for-defeating-imperialist-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-new-cutout-king-posters-praise-sirisena-for-defeating-imperialist-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Cutout King: Posters Praise Sirisena For Defeating Imperialist Forces !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Posters\u00a0displayed on walls, buses, and on huge billboards and cutouts along roadsides in Colombo &#8211; Katunayake road\u00a0praising\u00a0President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maithripala+Sirisena&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/span><\/a> for defeating imperialist forces.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Planned grand welcome for Maithripala Sirisena returning from UNGA looks\/feels like a throwback to Mahinda Rajapaksa days&#8221; one commentator in his Facebook.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Maithripala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-151727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Maithripala.jpg\" alt=\"Maithripala\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Maithripala.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Maithripala-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here are some tweets<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Change seems not given up of making another poster hero or is it a fight btw 2 ministers? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HqlUxHsNst\">https:\/\/t.co\/HqlUxHsNst<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/AV0FfTnK36\">pic.twitter.com\/AV0FfTnK36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shihar Aneez (@shiharaneez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shiharaneez\/status\/649808456396861441\">October 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nAs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HRC30?src=hash\">#HRC30<\/a> adopts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SriLanka?src=hash\">#SriLanka<\/a> resolution posters praise <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaithripalaS\">@MaithripalaS<\/a> for defeating imperialist forces <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/6Q0eRErUpt\">pic.twitter.com\/6Q0eRErUpt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amantha (@AmanthaP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmanthaP\/status\/649557803749605376\">October 1, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":151727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The New Cutout King: Posters Praise Sirisena For Defeating Imperialist Forces ! 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