{"id":50653,"date":"2015-12-31T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50653"},"modified":"2015-12-31T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:52:31","slug":"nature-teaches-us-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/31\/nature-teaches-us-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature teaches us lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Recently I moved into a house with a huge lawn. However I was\u00a0 dismayed to find half of the lawn overgrown with weeds and it looked like I will have to re plant the buffalo grass. I asked \u00a0one veteran gardener to help me re-lay the lawn. When he \u00a0visited my lawn he gave me an amazing advice \u2013 just to remove the weed grass and to leave the few buffalo grass saplings that weres found underneath. Lo and behold! When I did just that, they grew fast and strong and I got a lovely full grown lawn without spending a cent! The weeds did not have strong roots so it was very easy to pluck them out unlike the good ones.<\/p>\n<p>This set \u00a0me thinking. Isn\u2019t it the same with life too? We had all the bad guys at the helm of our government and it looked like an impossible task to rectify the situation. But when the bad guys were removed the few good guys took over the yahaplanaya was born. The bad guys never had strong roots \u2013 they were easy to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>However the story does not end there. When I neglect the lawn and let the weeds grow again \u2013 they do with a vengeance unless you remove them with roots &#8211; they overgrow the good lawn. The same with the bad politicos \u2013 until and unless they are rooted out lot, stock and barrel, they are sure to come again and mar the beauty of the new government.\u00a0 This is exactly what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>It is sad that we have got into the quagmire of JR\u2019s bahubootha politics and seem to be \u00a0struggling with it having to look for numbers, parties and what not. Man made rules are meant to be remade. Constantly. There must be a way with the new President at the helm, this tight rope around the neck of the government and good governance to be removed.\u00a0 If there is a will there will be a way. The good guys must figure out a way to keep the weeds at bay \u2013 for good.<\/p>\n<p>Sent by:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Recently I moved into a house with a huge lawn. However I was\u00a0 dismayed to find half of the lawn overgrown with weeds and it looked like I will have to re plant the buffalo grass. I asked \u00a0one veteran gardener to help me re-lay the lawn. When he \u00a0visited my [&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-50653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50653","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=50653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}