{"id":50677,"date":"2016-01-02T05:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50677"},"modified":"2016-01-02T05:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T12:01:39","slug":"farmers-loin-clothes-and-g-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/02\/farmers-loin-clothes-and-g-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"FARMERS LOIN CLOTHES AND\u00a0 G STRINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Today\u00a0\u00a0 I got stuck in traffic due to the demonstration by our farmers who were wearing only\u00a0 loin\u00a0 clothes and carrying\u00a0 mammoties etc<\/p>\n<p>There is a Sinhala saying says, that  if a farmer washes his mud on his body he is suitable to become even a KING\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I saw them at the back of Temple Trees I wondered whether one of them, like the one above wants to be the KING ,as they wanted to enter the temple trees where the King used to live<\/p>\n<p>The face is familiar and reminds me of Rohan Wijeweera who led the bloody revolution to become the King !!<\/p>\n<p>When I travel to villages see the farmers in loin clothes but hardly see the beard of a revolutionary?<\/p>\n<p>Best way to check whether they are farmers or members of a revolutionary party is to check their palms for roughness due to the daily use of mammoties<\/p>\n<p>If police can check the palms and let them thru it will be fair<\/p>\n<p>Or if the wives of the farmers join the husbands in G strings I am sure whole country will enjoy the seen<\/p>\n<p>God save the King and the Farmer !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Today\u00a0\u00a0 I got stuck in traffic due to the demonstration by our farmers who were wearing only\u00a0 loin\u00a0 clothes and carrying\u00a0 mammoties etc There is a Sinhala saying says, that if a farmer washes his mud on his body he is suitable to become even a KING\u201d When I saw them at [&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-50677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677","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=50677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}