{"id":46482,"date":"2015-08-03T02:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T09:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46482"},"modified":"2015-08-03T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T09:43:18","slug":"the-cartoon-that-decided-the-1956-election-defeat-of-the-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/03\/the-cartoon-that-decided-the-1956-election-defeat-of-the-unp\/","title":{"rendered":"The cartoon that decided the 1956 election defeat of the UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>This cartoon sealed the fate of the UNP in 1956<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It depicted Sir John Kotelawala riding an elephant (the symbol of the UNP) pointing a spear at the Buddha statue. Accompanying Sir John was people dressed in western garb drinking and dancing (Western Liberalism slowly attempting to remove the Buddhist cultural heritage of Sri Lanka) in the foreground was a calf killed and ready to be barbecued&#8230;(Buddhists have been appealing against animal slaughter in keeping with Buddhas preaching to treat Man and Animal equally)<\/p>\n<p>This cartoon shook the Sinhala Buddhists<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cartoonagainstUNP1956.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cartoonagainstUNP1956.png\" alt=\"cartoonagainstUNP1956\" width=\"599\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cartoonagainstUNP1956.png 599w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cartoonagainstUNP1956-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon sealed the fate of the UNP in 1956 It depicted Sir John Kotelawala riding an elephant (the symbol of the UNP) pointing a spear at the Buddha statue. Accompanying Sir John was people dressed in western garb drinking and dancing (Western Liberalism slowly attempting to remove the Buddhist cultural heritage of Sri Lanka) [&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-46482","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\/46482","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=46482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}