{"id":42857,"date":"2015-04-04T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42857"},"modified":"2015-04-04T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:34:13","slug":"the-reason-why-britain-is-so-interested-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/04\/the-reason-why-britain-is-so-interested-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"THE REASON WHY BRITAIN IS SO INTERESTED IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The videos show how a small country like Britain was able to hold \u00bc of the world as its Empire. It also shows why it is so interested in Sri Lanka. This gives a lot of insight in to their thinking and may help our people to find a way out of the trap laid for them. They wish to regain the glory of the Empire all over again starting with Sri Lanka. It is a BBC production.<\/p>\n<p>Empire Episode 1 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T3_NICOfzTM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T3_NICOfzTM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Empire Episode 2 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JJg8MX5QStc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JJg8MX5QStc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Empire Episode 3 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7EbpsLRm8qM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7EbpsLRm8qM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Empire Episode 4 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SCzQ5DzoQDA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SCzQ5DzoQDA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Empire Episode 5 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z5tM_X3Grhk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z5tM_X3Grhk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The videos show how a small country like Britain was able to hold \u00bc of the world as its Empire. It also shows why it is so interested in Sri Lanka. This gives a lot of insight in to their thinking and may help our people to find a way out of the trap laid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42857","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=42857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}