{"id":50309,"date":"2016-12-12T03:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50309"},"modified":"2016-12-12T03:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T08:41:23","slug":"construction-of-worlds-tallest-christmas-tree-at-galle-face-resumes-after-prime-minister-wickremesinghe-meets-cardinal-malcolm-ranjith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50309","title":{"rendered":"Construction of World&#8217;s Tallest Christmas Tree at Galle Face Resumes After Prime Minister  Wickremesinghe Meets Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Lahiru Pothmulla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The construction of the world\u2019s tallest Christmas tree at the Galle Face Green, which was halted, had been resumed today, the Ports and Shipping Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p> Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had informed Minister Arjuna Ranatunga to resume the construction of the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p> The Prime Minister and the Finance Minister had met the Archbishop of Colombo, His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday and the Premier had informed the Cardinal that it was private donations which would be used to construct the tree.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton50309\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D50309&amp;text=Construction%20of%20World%26%238217%3Bs%20Tallest%20Christmas%20Tree%20at%20Galle%20Face%20Resumes%20After%20Prime%20Minister%20...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lahiru Pothmulla The construction of the world\u2019s tallest Christmas tree at the Galle Face Green, which was halted, had been resumed today, the Ports and Shipping Ministry said. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had informed Minister Arjuna Ranatunga to resume the construction of the Christmas tree. The Prime Minister and the Finance Minister had met &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Construction of World&#8217;s Tallest Christmas Tree at Galle Face Resumes After Prime Minister  Wickremesinghe Meets Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50311,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50309\/revisions\/50311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}