{"id":2052,"date":"2025-02-10T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-power-outage-in-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:42:56","slug":"monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-power-outage-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-power-outage-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey blamed for nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-10 15:42:55<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A monkey has been blamed for a nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka.<BR><br \/>\nPower is gradually being restored in the country but a government minister suggested that the blackout was caused by a primate intruding into a power station south of the capital Colombo.<BR><br \/>\nEnergy Minister Kumara Jayakody told reporters: &#8220;A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer, causing an imbalance in the system.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe power cut started at around 11am local time on Sunday (09.02.25) and has forced many across the island nation to rely on generators.<BR><br \/>\nSocial media users criticised the authorities for the blackout while also seeing the funny side of the outage.<BR><br \/>\nMario Nawfal wrote on X: &#8220;A rogue monkey knocked out Sri Lanka&#8217;s entire power grid after triggering a total failure at a substation in Colombo.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;One monkey = total chaos. Time to rethink infrastructure?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-10 15:42:55 A monkey has been blamed for a nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka. Power is gradually being restored in the country but a government minister suggested that the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}