{"id":101853,"date":"2020-05-02T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101853"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:06:16","slug":"animal-kingdom-and-monkey-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/02\/animal-kingdom-and-monkey-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal kingdom and monkey business"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Sarath Oveysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We are fighting Corona, which is a virus supposedly originated from animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also supposed to be descendants of monkeys, and we are ruining the environment and forests in the name of development. Animals may be trying to eradicate their harmful descendants of their own by introducing these dreadful viruses. Elephants including peacocks often ruin crops trying to chase the human species away. Lately, urban monkeys around the cities in our country \u00a0in large numbers are ruining our crops .i myself planted plantains, avocado, mangoes, Kadju, Rambutan, etc and I could not consume a single variable because \u00a0the monkeys keep eating them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Planted manioc is often eaten by porcupines and large mice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large number of parrots destroy long bean plants\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government wants the people to grow vegetables but the animals keep attacking the crops\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of these days crows and monkeys may bring another\ndecease and we will be helpless&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Buddhism preaches, we may have to meditate and convince ourselves and to live with the idea of ending the Sansara and end of reincarnation and leave the world to the original owners of this planet\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <br> CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br> Colombo <br> Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sarath Oveysekera\u00a0 We are fighting Corona, which is a virus supposedly originated from animals. We are also supposed to be descendants of monkeys, and we are ruining the environment and forests in the name of development. Animals may be trying to eradicate their harmful descendants of their own by introducing these dreadful viruses. Elephants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}