{"id":372,"date":"2018-02-20T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iddawela.com\/blog\/?page_id=372"},"modified":"2018-04-01T02:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:20:29","slug":"aruna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/?page_id=372","title":{"rendered":"1. Aruna Iddawela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aruna (1957) is the eldest of Abey Iddawela family (8th of 13 Iddawelas). Aruna studied in Kingswood College, Kandy (high school for boys) and worked in CEB (Ceylon Electricity Board). He married Janaki Hettiarachchi (1960) from Lewella, Kandy. They lived in Aruna&#8217;s childhood home in Pilimathalawa before moving to the newly built house in Lewella next to Janaki&#8217;s childhood home. They have two daughters Avanthi (1989) &amp; Chulani (1990). Jankai and the daughters studied in\u00a0 Mahamaya Girls College, Kandy (high school for girls) and graduated from Peradeniya University.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/iddawela.com\\\/?page_id=372\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-square\" data-original-width=\"640\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/?attachment_id=373\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"373\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aruna1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"432,288\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"janakiHgraddtr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/janakiHgraddtr-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/janakiHgraddtr.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/janakiHgraddtr-209x209.jpg\" width=209 height=209 title=\"janakiHgraddtr\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aruna (1957) is the eldest of Abey Iddawela family (8th of 13 Iddawelas). Aruna studied in Kingswood College, Kandy (high school for boys) and worked in CEB (Ceylon Electricity Board). He married Janaki Hettiarachchi (1960) from Lewella, Kandy. They lived in Aruna&#8217;s childhood home in Pilimathalawa before moving to the newly built house in Lewella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":135,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-372","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372\/revisions\/1871"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}