{"id":124084,"date":"2022-04-07T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124084"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:35:47","slug":"close-down-the-dehiwala-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/07\/close-down-the-dehiwala-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Close down the Dehiwala Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Close down the Dehiwala Zoo &#8211; wrongful imprisonment of innocent animals for life who have done no wrong and away from their natural habitat, is a blot on our moral conscience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animals cannot speak for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have to give Voice for the Voiceless. That is the test of our humanity and moral strength.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As much as we humans love freedom and liberty. So do animals. They are sentient beings. Let us all work&nbsp;together to break their chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us in this great revolution to give freedom to captive Animals incarcerated in an Animal Prison euphemistically called a &#8216;Zoo&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice for Animals and Nature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna Close down the Dehiwala Zoo &#8211; wrongful imprisonment of innocent animals for life who have done no wrong and away from their natural habitat, is a blot on our moral conscience.&nbsp; Animals cannot speak for themselves. We have to give Voice for the Voiceless. That is the test of our humanity and moral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124084","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=124084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}