{"id":47031,"date":"2015-08-15T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47031"},"modified":"2015-08-15T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:15:24","slug":"blessings-on-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/15\/blessings-on-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings on Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Asoka Bandarage\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">BLESSINGS ON SRI LANKA\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Sri Lanka, the resplendent\u00a0\u200bland\u200b, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean,\u00a0Sri Lanka, the blessed isle, Dhammadipa, where the Buddha&#8217;s teaching\u00a0was written down and safeguarded for the human race.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Sri Lanka, the land\u00a0\u200bthat \u200bthe forces of ignorance, greed and hatred seek to usurp and tear asunder.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>May the forces of wisdom and compassion prevail on this election day\u00a0August 17, 2015-to protect Sri Lanka, her culture and the well-being of all her people and the generations to come.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asoka Bandarage\u00a0 BLESSINGS ON SRI LANKA\u00a0 Sri Lanka, the resplendent\u00a0\u200bland\u200b, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean,\u00a0Sri Lanka, the blessed isle, Dhammadipa, where the Buddha&#8217;s teaching\u00a0was written down and safeguarded for the human race.\u00a0 Sri Lanka, the land\u00a0\u200bthat \u200bthe forces of ignorance, greed and hatred seek to usurp and tear asunder. May the forces of wisdom [&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-47031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47031","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=47031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}