{"id":507281,"date":"2022-07-20T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507281"},"modified":"2022-07-20T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:29:01","slug":"out-of-cash-and-fuel-sri-lanka-runs-on-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/out-of-cash-and-fuel-sri-lanka-runs-on-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of cash and fuel, Sri Lanka runs on patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The queues are ubiquitous \u2014 and orderly. To get five litres of gasoline, auto-rickshaw drivers wait calmly in line for as long as five days. People have been queuing up for cooking gas, milk powder, and meals at soup kitchens, without fights or friction. Each day, essential workers, in hospitals, sanitation, post offices and banks, tolerate cramming into buses, one of the only means of transport with an assured supply of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout hanging? It\u2019s 110 people,\u201d bus driver M.P.L.K. Saman, 32, said about the number of passengers he packs in for the 15-mile journey between Colombo and Dompe in the east. \u201cWith hanging? 150 people.\u201d The country is running on patience, even as the political and economic crisis intensifies. The former President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, went into hiding after protesters stormed his residence and office last week, and then he fled the country on a military plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The queues are ubiquitous \u2014 and orderly. To get five litres of gasoline, auto-rickshaw drivers wait calmly in line for as long as five days. People have been queuing up for cooking gas, milk powder, and meals at soup kitchens, without fights or friction. Each day, essential workers, in hospitals, sanitation, post offices and banks, tolerate cramming into buses, one of the only means of transport with an assured supply of fuel. \u201cWithout hanging? It\u2019s 110 people,\u201d bus driver M.P.L.K. Saman, 32, said about the number of passengers he packs in for the 15-mile journey between Colombo and Dompe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507281","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}