{"id":117028,"date":"2021-08-12T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117028"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T23:25:00","slug":"tusker-walks-10-days-to-join-buddhist-festival-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/12\/tusker-walks-10-days-to-join-buddhist-festival-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusker walks 10 days to join Buddhist festival in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tusker-in-Kadugannawa-en-route-to-Kandy-627x375.jpg\" alt=\"Tusker walks 10 days to join Buddhist festival in Sri Lanka\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo, August 12 (Xinhua): A tusker, escorted by the Special Task Force is on a 10-day journey to participate in the Kandy Esala Perahera, which is scheduled to be held from Aug. 14 to 24 in Kandy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival is one of the grandest Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, with an elephant parade being one of the biggest attractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tusker-escorted-by-Special-Task-Force-.Photo_.Ajith-Perera.Xinhua.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59506\"\/><figcaption>Tusker escorted by Special Task Force.Photo: Ajith Perera\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tusker-passes-through-Kadugannawa-market-place.-Photo.Ajith-Perera.-Xinhua.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59508\"\/><figcaption>Tusker passes through Kadugannawa market place. Photo:Ajith Perera\/ Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 12 (Xinhua): A tusker, escorted by the Special Task Force is on a 10-day journey to participate in the Kandy Esala Perahera, which is scheduled to be held from Aug. 14 to 24 in Kandy. The festival is one of the grandest Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, with an elephant parade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117028","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=117028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}