{"id":41161,"date":"2015-02-01T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T05:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41161"},"modified":"2015-02-01T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T23:09:44","slug":"new-york-times-article-humiliating-sri-lankas-national-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/01\/new-york-times-article-humiliating-sri-lankas-national-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times article &#8211; Humiliating Sri Lanka&#8217;s National Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Shenali Waduge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>New York Times article &#8216;Helping Sri Lanka&#8217;s New Democracy&#8217; by biased writer Ryan Goodman has humiliated Sri Lanka&#8217;s National Flag&#8230; placing a yankee carrying an American flag riding the lion (Sinhala race). If this is some sort of message the US is trying to convey&#8230; it is good for the Sri Lankan people to ask themselves whether they wish to have the Americans riding on them!<\/p>\n<p>Humiliating the National Flag is a penal code offence.<br \/>\nWill the new Sri Lankan Government outsourced its role from the elected President take action at least issue a statement denouncing this act?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/20\/opinion\/helping-sri-lankas-new-democracy.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/20\/opinion\/helping-sri-lankas-new-democracy.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SLflagdamage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SLflagdamage.jpg\" alt=\"SLflagdamage\" width=\"470\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SLflagdamage.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SLflagdamage-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenali Waduge New York Times article &#8216;Helping Sri Lanka&#8217;s New Democracy&#8217; by biased writer Ryan Goodman has humiliated Sri Lanka&#8217;s National Flag&#8230; placing a yankee carrying an American flag riding the lion (Sinhala race). If this is some sort of message the US is trying to convey&#8230; it is good for the Sri Lankan people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161","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=41161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}