{"id":104009,"date":"2020-06-27T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104009"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:18:01","slug":"visons-of-an-island-sir-christopher-ondaatjes-romance-with-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/27\/visons-of-an-island-sir-christopher-ondaatjes-romance-with-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Visons Of An Island &#8211; Sir Christopher Ondaatje&#8217;s romance with Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<h2 id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcIQzUJDjjjdA4XG5M8Lcnw\">Macquarie University<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Visons Of An Island -  Sir Christopher Ondaatje&#039;s romance with Sri Lanka\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kyMfvD2FUrs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=QZzUKLIu4T6qF68TkL3ihbPiodJ8MTU5MzM4MTkwNkAxNTkzMjk1NTA2&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=kyMfvD2FUrs&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mq.edu.au%2F\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mq.edu.au\/<\/a>   &#8220;Visions of an Island&#8221; is an autobiographical account of Sir Christopher Ondaatje&#8217; romance with Sri Lanka drawing on several of his books.\n\nSir Christopher is  writer in residence from 28 March till 14 April 2011, he was born in Ceylon, educated in London and immigrated to Canada in 1956. He has worked at several magazines and newspapers, and in 1967 founded the Pagurian Press, which eventually became the enormously successful Pagurian Corporation. In 1988 he sold all his business interests and returned to the literary world.\n\nHe is the author of seven books including the best-selling Burton biographies &#8220;Sindh Revisited&#8221; and &#8220;Journey to the Source of the Nile&#8221;. He was a member of Canada&#8217;s 1964 Olympic bobsled team, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. He lives in London, England.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie University http:\/\/www.mq.edu.au\/ &#8220;Visions of an Island&#8221; is an autobiographical account of Sir Christopher Ondaatje&#8217; romance with Sri Lanka drawing on several of his books. Sir Christopher is writer in residence from 28 March till 14 April 2011, he was born in Ceylon, educated in London and immigrated to Canada in 1956. He has worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104009","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=104009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}