{"id":48835,"date":"2015-10-21T01:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48835"},"modified":"2015-10-21T01:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:56:53","slug":"royal-asiatic-society-sri-lanka-rassl-monthly-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/21\/royal-asiatic-society-sri-lanka-rassl-monthly-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), Monthly Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), Monthly\u00a0Public\u00a0Lecture <strong><em><\/em><\/strong>The Challenges in Protecting the Monuments of the Ancient Fortress of Kotte\u201d by Mr. Ishan Wiratunga, Secretary, Kotte Heritage Foundation\u00a0 will be held o<strong>n Monday 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2015 at\u00a05.00 p.m. at the <\/strong><strong>Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kotte\u00a0is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> longest serving capital in ancient\u00a0Sri\u00a0Lanka\u00a0but it is the most neglected archaeological site. Other than \u00a0the\u00a0Alakeshwara Palace and\u00a0Beaddgana\u00a0mounds, the Rampart,\u00a0ancient moats and associated locations\u00a0are in great danger of extinction.\u00a0Encroachers\u00a0who destroy monuments get away as there are no proper name boards covering the entire\u00a0kingdom of ancient\u00a0Kotte. Although the\u00a0DG\u00a0of Archaeological Department had agreed to attend to this matter, it had delayed for a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALL ARE WELCOME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), Monthly\u00a0Public\u00a0Lecture The Challenges in Protecting the Monuments of the Ancient Fortress of Kotte\u201d by Mr. Ishan Wiratunga, Secretary, Kotte Heritage Foundation\u00a0 will be held on Monday 26th\u00a0October 2015 at\u00a05.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. Kotte\u00a0is [&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-48835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48835","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=48835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}