{"id":43695,"date":"2015-05-09T06:07:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43695"},"modified":"2015-05-09T06:07:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:07:32","slug":"tia-this-is-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/09\/tia-this-is-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"TIA (This is Africa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>TIA -The land with brown soil<\/p>\n<p>Where the civilized and virtuous men came in search of slaves<\/p>\n<p>For centuries the land and men were tormented<\/p>\n<p>Looted the nature&#8217;s resources to the end<\/p>\n<p>TIA \u2013 where the lion and hyena avoids each other<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is a prey at a given moment<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is guaranteed<\/p>\n<p>Rules by an invisible hand<\/p>\n<p>TIA \u2013 where they discovered\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the earliest hominids<\/p>\n<p>The early civilization -the Bell-Beaker culture of\u00a0Ethiopia<\/p>\n<p>The golden heritage of mankind<\/p>\n<p>Deliberately erased by the one track mind Archeologists<\/p>\n<p>TIA- experienced so much pain<\/p>\n<p>When the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0King Leopold\u00a0 of Belgium ordered to\u00a0amputated the hands of children<\/p>\n<p>Expressed repulsion when the\u00a0Apartheid law rejected\u00a0one man one vote system<\/p>\n<p>TIA \u2013 this is the place where the music began<\/p>\n<p>Harmonious one rhythm<\/p>\n<p>Evolved in to the sound of Jazz<\/p>\n<p>When her children enslaved in\u00a0New Orleans<\/p>\n<p>TIA \u2013 she has no more tears<\/p>\n<p>No more blood to bleed<\/p>\n<p>And no more sons to sacrifice<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge TIA -The land with brown soil Where the civilized and virtuous men came in search of slaves For centuries the land and men were tormented Looted the nature&#8217;s resources to the end TIA \u2013 where the lion and hyena avoids each other Everyone is a prey at a given moment Nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-ruwan-m-jayatunge-m-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43695","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=43695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}