{"id":106070,"date":"2020-08-30T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106070"},"modified":"2020-08-30T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:36:13","slug":"disoriented-tamils-at-the-cross-roads-without-a-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/30\/disoriented-tamils-at-the-cross-roads-without-a-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Disoriented Tamils at the cross-roads without a compass"},"content":{"rendered":"

H. L. D. Mahindapala<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Of all the\noddities displayed at the opening of the new Parliament \u2013 and there were some\nexceptional ones like an MP arriving in a prison van and another landing in a\nboat etc. \u2013 the most significant one to my mind was the presence of two\nfathers-in-law sitting on opposite benches, facing each other, ready to go into\nverbal duels at any given moment.  There are, of course, many precedents\nwhere distant and blood relatives crossed swords on the floor of the House. One\nof the earliest was Colvin R. de Silva (Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India\n\/LSSP) in the Opposition benches firing at the politics of his brother, Walwin,\na UNPer, and vice versa. Another memorable instance was when Anura Bandaranaike\njoined the UNP government and tearing into his mother\u2019s politics who was\nsitting in the Opposition. Considering that the genealogy of Sri Lankans runs\nlike a wild wine creeper twining practically through each other\u2019s legs in\ndevious ways, there could have been many unaccounted relatives battling it out\nfrom the opposite benches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the\nmarriage of Vasudeva Nanayakkara\u2019s son to C. V. Wigneswaran\u2019s daughter makes\nthe two fathers-in-law a first in the Parliament. Both will occupy their seats\nas two incendiary explosives that could go off any moment in the House. That is\ninevitable, particularly because both are impulsive fire-brands.  In fact,\none report said that they were exchanging heated words in the lobby on their\nfirst day in Parliament when the Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, noticing\nthe sparks flying between the two, eased his way through the crowd and stepped\nin to defuse the rising tensions. But this is only the prelude for more things\n\u2013 more ominous things — to come later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the new\nParliament they represent the two divisive polarities that are bound to\ncollide. They are the outstanding and controversial symbols of the ominous\nforces of our time hanging overhead like the Damocles sword. Their politics has\nthe potential to outweigh even the critical issues of the economy which are yet\nto unfold in all its fury. The proposed Constitution will be the new\nbattleground for the old issues of power sharing that began in colonial times.\nIt is predictable that the old wounds of the inter-ethnic relations between the\nNorth and the South will open up with the rival contenders going at each\nother\u2019s throats, hopefully without the devastating consequences experienced by\nboth parties in the recent past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nNorthern political elite whose life and soul depended on exploiting mono-ethnic\nextremism (aka, Tamil nationalism, Eelamism, federalism, separatism,\nself-determination) bared its tigerish teeth on the very first day of the\nopening debate. C. V. Wigneswaran did not hesitate to demonstrate his style and\nsubstance with his provocative and controversial speech. He did not hesitate to\necho the old mantra that pull the heartstrings of the Tamils: the Tamil\nlanguage. Using his standard tactic, with nothing else to crow about, he paid\nhomage to the Tamil language which resonates as the primary source of\nsustaining and pursuing Tamil identity politics. This is also his signature\ntune and he signalled that the Parliament is going to hear more of it in the\ndays, months and years to come. It is, of course, a variation of his notorious\nresolution passed in Northern Provincial Council condemning all Sinhala leaders\nsince Independence as genocidal maniacs who had decimated the Tamils. The likes\nof Wigneswaram survive in the competitive politics of the peninsula only by\ndistorting known facts, recorded history and the grim realities that refuse to\nsurrender to their disproportionate and extremist demands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the\nleaders who welcomed the new Speaker maintained a neutral tone and the formal\ndecorum that is expected on this occasion. Only Wigneswaran\u2019s speech went off\nthe rails. He could not help being Wigneswaran \u2013 the new kid in the bloc\nshowing off his no-hands-on-the-handle ride down the main street. It needs to\nbe quoted in full as it foreshadows the shape of things to come. The following\nquote is from the Hansard: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The Hon.\nC.V. Wigneswaran) \u0bae\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bcd\u1f97\u0bae\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b9a\u0baa\u0bbe\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0baf\u0b95\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc7\u0bb3, \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bc7\u0ba4\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc2\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0ba3\u0bbf \u0b9a\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u1f99\u0ba4\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0ba3\u0bcd \u0b89\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u1fa6\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u1f90\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8\u0bb3 \u0ba4\u0bcd \u0bc6\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0bbf\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u1f90\u0b95\u0bcd\u0bc6\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bc7\u0bb1\u0ba9\u0bcd. I start my felicitations, Hon.\nSpeaker, hailing you in my mother tongue, the oldest living language of this\nworld and the language of the first indigenous inhabitants of this country, and\nproceed in the link language. I thank you for accepting such a high position in\nour Parliamentary tradition. Sir, I am sure, you would bring with your high\nOffice your experience with men and matters gained throughout your long\npolitical career. We have a very powerful Government now. A similar Government\nwas constituted under the late J.R. Jayewardene in 1977. It was during that\nregime that we had the 1983 Pogrom. Certainly, this Government too could follow\nthe path of the Elephant of that time and end up as today reduced to a single\nMember in the future. But, I am sure they would not. They would prefer to learn\nfrom our mistakes of the past and usher in a period of peace and prosperity\nwhere all communities would feel equal to each other and walk with dignity and\npride as children of Mother Lanka. That freedom and equality could dawn only if\nwe shed the false historical perspectives of the past and recognize the\nintrinsic rights of the people living in the North and the East of Sri Lanka,\nwho are entitled to the right of self-determination as per Article 1 of Chapter\none of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in addition to\ntheir hereditary and traditional rights to be recognized as a nation. Sir, I\nhope, we would not be called upon in this August Assembly of Parliamentarians\nin the future, during your term of Office, for your protective assistance since\nwe would respect each other\u2019s rights and our duties towards each other. We are\nsure that you will guide us all without fear or favour if any such impasse\ncomes to pass. There is no need Sir, in a country which professes Buddhism to\nexpect a hegemonic dominance from anyone. We have not forgotten what the\nSinhala villager is only too well familiar with, that every act has its\nopposite reaction; \u0d9a\u0dc5 \u0d9a\u0dc5 \u0dd9\u01ca \u0db4\u0dbd \u0db4\u0dbd \u0dd9\u01ca. \u0dc3\u0dca\u01b1\u01af\u0250, \u0d9c\u025e \u0d9a\u0dae\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0d9a\u01b1\u0db8\u01e7 .English equivalent: You will reap what you sow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though\nshort it summarises the usual litany of complaints recycled unceasingly by the\nTamil leadership blaming the Sinhalese. In the next day\u2019s sittings of the House\nG. G. Ponnambalam, the grandson of the father of virulent Tamil communalism, G.\nG. Ponnambalam, Snr., who sparked off the first communal riots in 1939 by\nattacking the Mahavamsa<\/em><\/strong> and the history of the nation, went\nbeyond Wigneswaran to focus on the two nation\u201d theory. That is a claim that\nmust be dealt in a separate chapter next Sunday. First, attention must be\nfocused on Wigneswaran dragging his aggressive, anti-Sinhala-Buddhist politics\nfrom his launching pad in the Provincial Council in the North to a higher level\nin the Parliament.  To being with, there is nothing new in Wigneswaran\u2019s\nwhingeing. He is only reiterating what every other Tamil propagandist has said\nfor the nth time before. But what does it portend? It is this kind of rhetoric\nthat paved the path to the Vadukoddai violence unleashed in 1976. Blaming the\nSinhala-Buddhists has been the only ideological trick they had to seduce their\npeople into the path of brutal and futile violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\ninstance, Prabhakaran was nurtured, encouraged, supported, financed and\ndefended at all times by the Tamil Vellala elite which retained their grip on\npower in the peninsula by demonising the Sinhala-Buddhists. Prabhakaran knew\nnothing but the hate politics fed to him by the Tamil theoreticians \/\npropagandists who manufactured a fake history of Tamils which invariably ended\nin projecting the Sinhala-Buddhists as the permanent enemies of the Tamils. The\nessence of this ideology was encapsulated in the Vadukoddai Resolution which\ndeclared war on the Sinhala-Buddhist in 1976. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\ncurrent political context of the post-Gotabaya Presidential election, the\nchoice before the Tamils is either to go back to the Vadukoddai Resolution and\nkick-start the road to Nandikadal again, or carve out a more realistic path for\npeaceful co-existence taking into consideration the lessons learnt in\nNandikadal. It is, indeed, sad that Wigneswaran has chosen to ignore the new\nrealties haunting the Northern landscape. He has reverted to the same-old,\nsame-old hate politics. He made use of the occasion to address the extremists\nwho are likely to follow him into the never-never land of elusive Eelam. He\ntalks of the right of self-determination\u201d, the right to be recognised as a\nnation\u201d, hegemonic dominance\u201d of the majority, the 1983 pogrom\u201d,  a\nclaim to be \u201dthe first indigenous inhabitants of this country\u201d, and, of\ncourse,  the oldest living language of this world\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take the\nlast one first. To boast about the Tamil language being the oldest, boosts only\nthe egos of the Tamils who have nothing else to crow about in Sri Lanka.\nBesides, it is a specious argument because if antiquity is a mark of\nsuperiority then the Sinhalese language, which the Tamils say came into being\nonly in the fifth century, should be considered superior to the English\nlanguage which blossomed into what it is today, only in the 15th<\/sup>-16th<\/sup>\ncenturies under Geoffrey Chaucer and modernised by Shakespeare later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides,\nthe Tamils of Jaffna did not create the Tamil language which, indeed, is a\ncultural gem. The local Tamils brought it in their bag and baggage when they\ncrossed the Palk Straits in the 12th<\/sup>-13th<\/sup> centuries.\nTamil historians have openly admitted that the Jaffna Tamils were merely\nsecond-hand imitators of the Tamil Nadu culture. No original masterpieces ever\ncame out of Jaffna. On the contrary, the Sinhalese created and gifted to the\nworld a whole new language rich enough to express the subtle nuances of the\ngreatest philosophy of India, Buddhism. As opposed to this, the imitative\nJaffna Tamils are prone to pretend that they have been the virtual founders of\nthe great Tamil culture that flourished in S. India. Simply because Arumuka\nNavalar and C . W. Thamotherampillai excavated the neglected Tamil classical\ntexts from S. India and printed them in Jaffna they assume that they have been\nthe virtual founders, discoverers, and revivalists of Tamil language and\nculture. The fact is that Jaffna had not contributed anything substantial to\nthe greatness of the Tamil language. So which community can claim to be\nsuperior to the other? Is it those who are parroting a language borrowed from\nanother land? Or those who with their creative genius minted a new language? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nSinhala-Buddhists also gave the world a new civilisation and a new culture. In\nfact, the great aesthetic savant, Ananda Coomaraswamy, wrote a classic\nmonograph on Medieval Sinhala Art<\/em><\/strong>. Being a Tamil, wouldn\u2019t he\nhave written an equally great monograph on Jaffna art if the Tamils had\nanything comparable to that of the Sinhalese? So what is Wigneswaran crowing\nabout? Why is he trying to pretend that the Tamil language came from his\nfather\u2019s loins when its origins go way back in time to the dim distant past in\nanother land? In comparison let\u2019s take the case of the American and the\nAustralian migrants who took the English language with them as they migrated\ninto new lands. They do not bask in the supremacy and the glory of English\nlanguage created in Britain. They take pride in the creative power of their own\npeople who produced a new culture of their own demonstrating their innate\ngenius. Can Wigneswaran at least point to the genius of the Jaffna Tamils\ncomparable to that of the English migrants domiciled in America or Australia?\nHe may not be familiar with these two cultures. Can he, therefore, tell us in\nwhat respects the Jaffna Tamil culture \u2013 not that of Tamil Nadu \u2013 is superior\nto that of the Sinhalese? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he\ntalked about the first indigenous inhabitants of this country.\u201d This is\nanother symptom of the common Tamil malaise to imagine histories that never\nhappened. Their political aspirations are based on believing in a fabricated\npast that could justify their current political agenda to create a separate\nstate.  Vadukoddai Resolution (1976) is a typical example of the Tamil\nmytho-maniacs concocting a political manifesto to sustain and pursue their\nunattainable aspirations\u201d. Besides, conflicting theories question the validity\nof their self-serving history which eventually led to the Vadukoddai\nDeclaration of war in 1976. Political violence depends on the extent to which\nit is possible to manufacture hate politics, extremism and myths. As the\nprimary aim of the Vadukoddai Resolution was to provide a valid justification\nto claim proprietary rights over Sri Lankan territory they went overboard by\ndeclaring the myth that they were the first arrivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This claim\nalso makes them believe that they are superior to all other migrants who came\nlater. Let us for the sake of argument concede that they came first. Then they\nmust explain why the inferior Sinhalese who came later built a unique\ncivilization, culture and language that stand to their glory surpassing all\nactivities of the superior Tamils. Besides, if they came earlier why did they\nwithdraw and confine themselves to a littoral strip in the sands of the North?\nIsn\u2019t it because the Tamils began their settlements, according to Tamil\nhistorians, only in the 12-13th centuries? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each time\nthe Tamils claim that they are superior to all others in the island, they are\nforced to explain why they played such an inferior role in the history of the\nnation. For instance, if the Tamils are so superior to the Sinhalese and the\nTamils played such a pivotal role in the national history how did the inferior\nSinhalese come out on top dominating every inch of the way in history to the 21st<\/sup>\ncentury, overcoming all challenges they faced, mostly from the Dravidians of\nthe North?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take, for\ninstance, the simple issue of demographics. If they came first they had the\nfield wide open for them, with no opposition, to populate and leave their\nindelible stamp on every conceivable aspect in history. But they didn\u2019t. They\nhad Paskaralingams, Mahalingams, Panchalingams, and whole lot of lingams none\nof whom had the capacity to populate the island with sufficient demographics to\ndominate the historical landscape.  So how did the Tamils fail and why did\nthe Sinhalese succeed? Recorded history states categorically that the Sinhalese\nwere exceptional because they outstripped the Tamils in their historic journey\nthrough the ages gone by. Throughout the better part of history, the Tamils\nlived under the shadow of Sinhala rulers. They accepted Sinhala as the official\nlanguage with which to communicate, from royalty down to the common trader in\nChetty Street. This also leads to a serious question: Does history belongs to\nthose who make spurious claims to justify the politics of the day or to those\nwho made history with their blood, sweat and tears down the ages? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of\nWigneswaran\u2019s sober moments he states that we (should) shed the false\nhistorical perspectives of the past\u201d. True. Absolutely true. But he has a\nmotive for saying this. He wants the world to accept his narrative of events\nrejecting the one that contradiction his version. As in any other conflict\nthere are two sides to story. He wants the world to shed the false historical\nperspective\u201d that contradicts his narrative. In other words, like all Tamil\npartisans marketing their one-sided story to the world he is making a strong\nbid to hide the subhuman history of Jaffna that humiliated, persecuted,\noppressed, suppressed and even massacred their own people on a mass scale for\ncenturies under fascist Vellalaism. He is deliberately falsifying the\nhistorical perspectives of his past because the truth will blast his political\nmyths to bits. He would, for instance, find it very difficult to give another\nexample of the ruling class\/caste denying their own people the right to walk in\nGod-given sunlight. These outcasts were allowed to come out only in the night\ndeclaring loudly as they walked that the Turumbas <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 the lowest of\nlow castes — are coming, purely to warn the Vellalas to close their doors and\nwindows to maintain the purity of their eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when he\nsays that we should shed the false historical perspective of the past\u201d he\nshould begin from his end before pointing fingers at his bete noir<\/em><\/strong>\nthe Sinhalese. He should first examine critically and objectively how his\nforefathers treated their own people before he accuses the Sinhalese of\ndiscriminating against the Tamils, or denying them their dignity and rights.\nWhat dignity did his ancestors give the low-castes when they refused to open\nthe doors of the Vellala-owned temples to the low-caste Hindus to worship their\ncommon God\/gods?  Or kept the front pews of the Church to the high castes\nand the last rows to the low-castes? In America the Negroes were not allowed to\nsit in the front rows of the busses but only in the back seats. In the Vellala\nfiefdom the low-castes were not allowed to sit on any seat, front or back. They\nhad to sit on the floor of the bus. This was institutionalised discrimination\nthat dehumanised Wigneswaran\u2019s own people. He refuses to examine the\nhorripilating tortures, persecutions, oppression and agonies of his own\nhistory. As a former judge it is his moral duty to weigh the available evidence\nbefore passing judgment. He should begin by asking: Why didn\u2019t our leaders make\nour own people  feel equal to each other\nand walk with dignity and pride as children\u201d of Tamil homeland?<\/a> \u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The debacle\nat Nandikadal must open the eyes of the Tamils to recognise that the Tamil\nleaders have been congenital idiots\u201d (Prof. David Kumar). With all the\naccumulated knowledge gathered from their misadventure on the road to\nNandikadal they must, at least at this late stage, accept responsibility for\ntheir folly. Blaming the Sinhalese is not going to take them to their\nunattainable Eelam. They must be more pragmatic and admit that it is the false\nhistorical perspective of the past\u201d that led the Tamil leadership to the\nself-destructive Vadkoddai Resolution. They were arrogant and intransigent\npolitical animals who led their people to a humiliating and disastrous end in\nNandikadal.  The rhetoric recycled by Wigneswaran can lead only the next\nNandikadal. Is this what the Tamils want? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite\nrightly he says, in one of his lucid moments, that we should learn from our\nmistakes of the past and usher in a period of peace and prosperity where all communities would feel equal to each other and\nwalk with dignity and pride as children of Mother Lanka<\/a>\u201d. But here he is\npointing his finger, as usual, at the Sinhalese. In saying this he is in\ndenial. Actually, he is lying through his teeth. He is the living example of\nTamils and Sinhalese walk(ing) with dignity and pride as children of Mother\nLanka.\u201d He was given a free education at Royal College, the best school run by\nthe Sinhala state\u201d. He was also given a free education at Law College run by\nthe Sinhala state\u201d. (In Chennai he would have had to pay through his nose to\nqualify as a lawyer).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\npracticed as a lawyer in the courts of the Sinhala state\u201d and not in any of\nthe pseudo courts in de facto state run by his Tamil hero, Velupillai\nPrabhakaran. He rose to the highest rank as judge in the Sinhala state\u201d where\nhe could walk with dignity and pride as an independent judge who would not have\nto bow down to the dictates of his Tamil Thalaivar. Above all, his daughter is\nmarried to a Sinhalese. Would he ever have given his loving daughter to a\nSinhalese if he knew that she would not feel equal to each other and walk with\ndignity and pride as children of Mother Lanka\u201d? So why is he painting the\nSinhalese as the evil demons when he has, all his life, thrived and walked with\ndignity and pride as a child of Mother Lanka? Besides, should he not think\ncompassionately about his own people, who had suffered enough due to the\nfollies of their leaders, and ask what chances he has of taking his people\nbeyond the next Nandikadal with his kind of logic and rhetoric?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wigneswaran\nis typical of the derelict, rudderless Tamil leader wandering in no-man\u2019s land\nin the post-Prabhakaran period. With Prabhakaran the Tamils had a center to\nhold them together, however obnoxious he was to the civilised world horrified\nby his fascist violence. With Prabhakaran they had something to lean on. After\nhim the Tamils have fallen into a vacuum and they are running around like\nchooks without heads. Finding a  new path that would not lead them to\nanother Nandikadal is the task for the Tamil leadership. Threatening the nation\nwith another round of Vadukoddai violence is counter-productive. But the\nrhetoric unleashed by Wigneswaran and his fellow-Vadukoddian, Ponnambalam, on\nthe first two days in the new Parliament expose not only their obsession with\nthe failed politics of the immediate past but also the bankruptcy of the Tamil\nleadership stuck at the cross-roads without a compass. To go back to regain\ntheir political leverage by militarising and weaponising their separatist\npolitics they have to find another Prabhakaran. Neither the ground realities of\nthe post-Nandikadal period nor the international support for Prabhakaranist\nterrorism is there for them to go that far. Clearly, they have to find a more\nviable alternative. Ponnambalam spoke arrogantly of his two state theory\u201d as\nif nothing has happened since his Grandfather sparked off the first communal\nriots in 1939 with anti-Sinhala rhetoric in Navalapitiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For what it\nis worth, this theory must be revisited next Sunday for the pragmatic Tamils to\nrealise that they can no longer float forever in the dark clouds that thundered\nand drenched them with the blood of their own people at Nandikadal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H. L. D. Mahindapala Of all the oddities displayed at the opening of the new Parliament \u2013 and there were some exceptional ones like an MP arriving in a prison van and another landing in a boat etc. \u2013 the most significant one to my mind was the presence of two fathers-in-law sitting on opposite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-l-d-mahindapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106070","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=106070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}