{"id":143352,"date":"2024-08-04T15:38:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143352"},"modified":"2024-08-04T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:38:50","slug":"a-clarification-to-earnest-appeal-to-the-ven-mahanayakes-please-protect-monks-from-unpatriotic-politicians-and-religious-extremists-published-in-lankaweb-on-august-3-2024-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/04\/a-clarification-to-earnest-appeal-to-the-ven-mahanayakes-please-protect-monks-from-unpatriotic-politicians-and-religious-extremists-published-in-lankaweb-on-august-3-2024-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"A clarification to EARNEST APPEAL TO THE VEN. MAHANAYAKES: PLEASE PROTECT MONKS FROM UNPATRIOTIC POLITICIANS AND RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS published in Lankaweb on August 3, 2024: An apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Rohana R. Wasala<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>This is for the kind attention of my dear readers. When skimming through the article published in Lankaweb, I found some inadvertent errors that had survived my normal pre-emailing revision of the text. Please bear with me. I take this opportunity to amend only the following very misleading sentence that appeared towards the end of the essay. The other errors are not so significant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Having watched the activities of this monk from afar for more than ten years as already indicated, I am sure he will readily accept the proper leadership of the Mahanayake Theras when it is available.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was entirely due to my own incorrect use of the word \u2018accept\u2019 (&#8230;will readily accept\u2026.) in that context. What I really wanted to say was that Gnanasara Thera will willingly submit himself to the leadership or authority of the Mahanayakes when such a proper leadership is provided. So, the correct version of the sentence should be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018But, having watched the activities of this monk from afar (entirely through the media) for more than ten years as already indicated, I am sure he will readily accept the disciplinary instructions and the proper guidance and leadership of the Mahanayake Theras when it is available.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sincerely regret this unintended but serious error of mine. Readers, I beg your pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Rohana R. Wasala<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohana R. Wasala This is for the kind attention of my dear readers. When skimming through the article published in Lankaweb, I found some inadvertent errors that had survived my normal pre-emailing revision of the text. Please bear with me. I take this opportunity to amend only the following very misleading sentence that appeared towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rohana-r-wasala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143352","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=143352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}