{"id":75286,"date":"2023-07-20T20:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.news19.lk\/?p=75286"},"modified":"2023-07-20T20:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:17:01","slug":"boycottiraj-trend-kasun-kalhara-decides-not-to-attend-rangahala-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/2023\/07\/20\/boycottiraj-trend-kasun-kalhara-decides-not-to-attend-rangahala-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"BoycottIraj trend: Kasun Kalhara decides not to attend &#8216;Rangahala&#8217; concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Renowned musician Kasun Kalhara today (20) said he would remove himself from music concert &#8216;Rangahala&#8217; scheduled to be held at Water&#8217;s Edge on 28 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It has come to my knowledge that the Rangahala concert is to be conducted in a manner contrary to the original agreement I had with the organisers of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, I can&#8217;t in good conscience continue to take part in this concert,&#8221; he said in a statement posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I proposed to the organisers that they proceed with the original plan that was conveyed to me, but they refused and as a result I made a decision to remove myself from the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt the need to publicly state my decision in order to inform any fans of mine who have purchased tickets expecting to see me perform,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned musician Kasun Kalhara today (20) said he would remove himself from music concert &#8216;Rangahala&#8217; scheduled to be held at Water&#8217;s Edge on 28 July. &#8220;It has come to my knowledge that the Rangahala concert is to be conducted in a manner contrary to the original agreement I had with the organisers of the event. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1026,33],"tags":[989,5,6,990,8,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-75286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-entertainment","9":"tag-concert","10":"tag-news19","11":"tag-news19-lk","12":"tag-rangahala","13":"tag-sri-lanka","14":"tag-sri-lanka-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}