{"id":54978,"date":"2016-05-25T22:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T04:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54978"},"modified":"2016-05-25T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:54:23","slug":"chief-ministergovernor-navy-officer-ambassador-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-by-john-le-carre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/25\/chief-ministergovernor-navy-officer-ambassador-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-by-john-le-carre\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIEF MINISTER,GOVERNOR ,NAVY OFFICER, AMBASSADOR \u00a0&#8211;  TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER , SPY \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026by John Le Carre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I wonder whether you have read the book called Tinker ,Sailor ,Soldier ,Spy by John le Carre. \u00a0A interesting film was made based on this book which depicts the double acting of British Intelligence .<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019,s episode where the Chief Minister of Eastern Provincial \u00a0had an outbreak of anger during a school prize giving had drawn my attention .<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister who is trying to do a Tinkering work to mend the relationship between the Sinhalese and Muslims against all odds , was blasting the Navy  Soldier  in the presence of the Governor who is the Tailor\u201d trying to stitch the patches of relationship between Central Government and the Provincial Council<\/p>\n<p>CM was blaming the Governor for not maintaining the proper Protocol during the ceremony and the poor soldier got the verbal barrage<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador who is the  Spy  was listening patiently with diplomatic silence would have thought Oh this is fun  !!<\/p>\n<p>All Chief Ministers and Governors <sub>\u00a0<\/sub>should \u00a0be sent to special course to learn the art of maintaining Protocol \u00a0and Diplomacy\u00a0 in order to prevent such things happening in the future !<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0 I wonder whether you have read the book called Tinker ,Sailor ,Soldier ,Spy by John le Carre. \u00a0A interesting film was made based on this book which depicts the double acting of British Intelligence . Yesterday\u2019,s episode where the Chief Minister of Eastern Provincial \u00a0had an outbreak of anger during a [&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-54978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978","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=54978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}