{"id":1789,"date":"2019-10-17T06:12:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T06:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T06:13:15","slug":"jaffna-international-airport-declared-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Jaffna International Airport declared open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1790\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg\" alt=\"Jaffna Airport\" width=\"205\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg 205w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>The Jaffna International Airport, Sri Lanka\u2019s third international airport was declared open a short while ago by President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>The airport, situated 20 KMs from the Jaffna City, has been equipped with a 2.3 KM long runway.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Arjuna Ranatunga and a number of other dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Newsfirst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jaffna International Airport, Sri Lanka\u2019s third international airport was declared open a short while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,5,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport-150x115.jpg",150,115,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jaffna-Airport.jpg",205,115,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}