{"id":49500,"date":"2015-11-16T22:59:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49500"},"modified":"2015-11-16T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:34:30","slug":"thoughts-of-a-young-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/16\/thoughts-of-a-young-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG LADY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sent from my iPad<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

“I think spending 30 years of my life in a country at War has numbed my
\nfeelings.<\/p>\n

I lived through the ’83 Race Riots. The ’89 JVP insurgency, all of those
\noverlapped by the LTTE problem. It became normal to hear about bombings and
\ndeath. It became so mundane that the severity of a bomb blast was decided by
\nthe number of casualties. If the numbers didn’t reach 2 digits we were not
\ninterested in the news itself.<\/p>\n

\"MR&REST\"<\/a><\/p>\n

During the last stages of the said War , every single day that I stepped out
\nto go to work in the Heart of Colombo, I wasn’t sure I’d get back home
\nalive. \u00a0There were threats of Bus Bombs ,Suicide attacks et al.<\/p>\n

Our Country went through some Tough times. But I cannot recall a single
\ninstance when the whole world stood still to offer us their prayers,
\ncondolences , candle lit vigils ….. all the frills ! They were always
\ndivided with their opinions.
\nRemember,We also lost nearly 100,000\/- lives.<\/p>\n

I could recall the number of times that we were accused of Human Rights
\nviolations. Although I’m not implying that there weren’t any, it’s just that
\nwe were always wrong in the eyes of the Western World.<\/p>\n

Now , Terrorism has come to their doorstep. In fact it has crossed the
\nthreshold and desecrated their living rooms. They want the whole world to
\ncondemn Terrorism unanimously.<\/p>\n

But all I can do is ask , Where were you When We needed you ?<\/p>\n

However, being a person who believes in Buddhism that thought \u00a0doesn’t last
\nlong.<\/p>\n

I am sorry for all the innocent lives lost in the Terror attack in Paris.
\nBut I truly cannot feel shocked or devastated. I’ve been numbed !<\/p>\n

I blame Terrorism for that !”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sent from my iPad “I think spending 30 years of my life in a country at War has numbed my feelings. I lived through the ’83 Race Riots. The ’89 JVP insurgency, all of those overlapped by the LTTE problem. It became normal to hear about bombings and death. It became so mundane that the […]<\/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-49500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49500","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=49500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}