{"id":50621,"date":"2015-12-30T00:42:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50621"},"modified":"2015-12-29T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T23:58:50","slug":"wont-let-people-walk-naked-on-road-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/30\/wont-let-people-walk-naked-on-road-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t let people walk naked on road: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Though he was highly criticised in the social media for making statements on country\u2019s values, President Maithripala Sirisena today said that he wouldn&#8217;t allow people, who had influenced by foreign cultures, to walk naked on the road.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed these views at the Silpa 2014 Handicraft Award Ceremony held at the Battaramulla Ape Gama Premises.<\/p>\n<p>I am being attacked in the social media circles for making statements to preserve our culture. But I\u2019m not being affected by those attempts. I come from a village and act based on good behaviour and ethics. I can\u2019t allow anyone to walk naked on the road. I would not allow anyone who embrace and regard the foreign cultures with esteem to degrade the greatness of the nation and proud culture of the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the objective of his assuming of Presidency on January 8 was to usher a developed country, while preserving the country\u2019s culture of thousands of years and values of the civilization.<br \/>\n&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/101041\/e-walk-naked-on-road#sthash.iOIoEDmb.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Though he was highly criticised in the social media for making statements on country\u2019s values, President Maithripala Sirisena today said that he wouldn&#8217;t allow people, who had influenced by foreign cultures, to walk naked on the road. He expressed these views at the Silpa 2014 Handicraft Award Ceremony held at the [&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-50621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621","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=50621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}