{"id":172002,"date":"2016-12-28T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=172002"},"modified":"2016-12-30T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:56:02","slug":"mourning-day-muddle-up-government-gives-into-boozy-sri-lankans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mourning-day-muddle-up-government-gives-into-boozy-sri-lankans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Day Muddle Up: Government Gives Into Boozy Sri Lankans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government today muddled up the day of mourning declared following the death of former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172004\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ratnasiri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172004\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ratnasiri.jpg\" alt=\"Ratnasiri Wickremanayake\" width=\"196\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-172004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Within an hour since announcing the day of mourning as December 31, the Home Affairs Ministry quickly retracted the original statement and issued a new date of mourning as December 30, as Sri Lankans took to social media to protest the day of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>No sooner the government announced that the day of mourning as December 31, \u2018panic\u2019 Sri Lankans who love their booze, fun and frolic, were seen posting questions on Facebook and Twitter asking, \u2018Will the parties be cancelled?,\u201d \u201cIs there no liquor on Saturday?.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, realizing its \u2018grave\u2019 mistake, the Home Affairs Ministry withdrew the original statement and issued a new statement declaring December 30 as the new day of mourning in view of the late Prime Minister\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":172004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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