{"id":71174,"date":"2024-09-21T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/polls-close-in-sri-lanka-presidential-election-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:44:51","slug":"polls-close-in-sri-lanka-presidential-election-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/polls-close-in-sri-lanka-presidential-election-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls close in Sri Lanka presidential election | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The polls have closed in Sri Lanka in the country&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first election since mass protests <!--more--> in 2022 unseated the leader which were sparked by the country&#8217;s worst-ever economic crisis. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s vote is widely regarded as a referendum on economic reforms meant to put the country on the road to recovery. <\/p>\n<p>But many are still struggling to make ends meet because of tax hikes, and cuts to subsidies and welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#SriLanka #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The polls have closed in Sri Lanka in the country&#8217;s presidential election. It is the first election since mass protests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}