{"id":51604,"date":"2016-01-31T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51604"},"modified":"2016-01-30T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:23:47","slug":"golden-fools-in-golden-swimming-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/31\/golden-fools-in-golden-swimming-pools\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLDEN\u00a0 FOOLS IN GOLDEN SWIMMING POOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Once upon a time,\u00a0 a son of a village farmer was found guilty of committing an offence\u00a0 and prisoned for several years.\u00a0\u00a0 As his father was old and feeble, the son was the breadwinner for the family.\u00a0\u00a0 Though they owned\u00a0 a large paddy field where\u00a0 son was in charge of all cultivation activities.\u00a0 the paddy field was neglected as\u00a0 a\u00a0 consequence of son&#8217;s absence, the mother and father found it extremely difficult to find any money to make a living.<\/p>\n<p>So, one day, the father wrote a letter to the son in the prison, saying their predicament and not having any money to make ends meet.\u00a0 The son wrote back &#8211; &#8221; Dear Thaththa, please don&#8217;t worry, when I worked in the field, I <strong>did hide several bags of gold\u00a0 in plastic bags at several places of the paddy field,<\/strong>\u00a0 please dig it up and then you will be rich&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe energised father called the villagers\u00a0 and asked them to help dig up the paddy field to find gold.\u00a0\u00a0 All villagers were delighted and spontaneously agreed to do it voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the end no Gold Plastic Bags were found<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then father wrote to son again, son replied, <strong>&#8220;Thaththa, don&#8217;t worry,\u00a0 now you can start cultivation because paddy field is cleared of weeds etc &#8220;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Once upon a time,\u00a0 a son of a village farmer was found guilty of committing an offence\u00a0 and prisoned for several years.\u00a0\u00a0 As his father was old and feeble, the son was the breadwinner for the family.\u00a0\u00a0 Though they owned\u00a0 a large paddy field where\u00a0 son was in charge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51604","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=51604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}