{"id":116051,"date":"2021-07-13T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116051"},"modified":"2021-07-13T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T23:20:26","slug":"jeff-bezos-on-how-a-sri-lankan-kept-him-from-going-into-theoretical-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/13\/jeff-bezos-on-how-a-sri-lankan-kept-him-from-going-into-theoretical-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos On How A Sri Lankan Kept Him From Going Into Theoretical Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>shalendra111<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nJeff Bezos describes how while he was at Princeton the smartest guy in the batch was a Sri Lankan. He goes on to say how &#8216;Yoshantha&#8221; helped him come to a major self realization.\n\n<\/p>\n\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=\"Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Influenced By Smarter Sri Lankan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/24tR8wx5Mng?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shalendra111 Jeff Bezos describes how while he was at Princeton the smartest guy in the batch was a Sri Lankan. He goes on to say how &#8216;Yoshantha&#8221; helped him come to a major self realization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116051","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=116051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}