{"id":492950,"date":"2022-05-21T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T05:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=492950"},"modified":"2022-05-21T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T06:55:08","slug":"sri-lanka-closes-schools-limits-work-as-nation-prepares-for-fuel-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-closes-schools-limits-work-as-nation-prepares-for-fuel-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka closes schools, limits work as nation prepares for fuel shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan authorities on Friday closed schools and asked public officials not to come to work in a desperate move to prepare for an acute fuel shortage that is expected to last days amid the nation&#8217;s worst economic crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Administration Ministry asked the public officials except for those who maintain essential services not to come to work on Friday in a view of current fuel shortage and issues in transport facilities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>State- and government-approved private schools also closed Friday amid the worsening fuel shortage, with thousands of people waiting in queues at fuel stations across the country for days at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan authorities on Friday closed schools and asked public officials not to come to work in a desperate move to prepare for an acute fuel shortage that is expected to last days amid the nation&#8217;s worst economic crisis in decades. The Public Administration Ministry asked the public officials except for those who maintain essential services not to come to work on Friday in a view of current fuel shortage and issues in transport facilities across the country. State- and government-approved private schools also closed Friday amid the worsening fuel shortage, with thousands of people waiting in queues at fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}