{"id":68414,"date":"2017-07-31T21:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68414"},"modified":"2017-07-31T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:20:54","slug":"political-monkeys-jumping-to-coconut-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/31\/political-monkeys-jumping-to-coconut-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICAL MONKEYS JUMPING TO COCONUT TREES"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0 M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Finding coconut pluckers is extremely difficult in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Still there are few old folks willing to climb the trees\u00a0 at a premium price.\u00a0 These old folks normally start work around 8 am and take a tea break at 10 and start again in 30 minutes and stop working at mid day.\u00a0\u00a0 By this time they need to go to Sravasthi\u201d\u00a0 for a well earned illicit Kasippu or a Gal.<\/p>\n

Due to the difficulty of finding human resources to pluck coconuts, several Asian countries use different methodologies.\u00a0 Some fix a collapsible umbrella (up side down) where between 45 and 50 days usually coconuts will fall and drop into the umbrella.\u00a0 There is a long cable attached to the umbrella, when pulled, the coconuts falls.<\/p>\n

In some other Asian countries, predominantly Thailand and Indonesia they have trained Monkeys to pluck coconuts.\u00a0 In Sri Lanka monkeys play hell in coconut estates, some owners shoot them down.\u00a0 The trained monkeys perform a fantastic job.<\/p>\n

In Sri Lanka we can find Monkeys quite easily.\u00a0 Sri Lankan Monkeys are \u00a0different from Monkeys of other countries.\u00a0 They get tired after working in one Estate, but wait for an appropriate time to jump to another Estate which is looking more prosperous and can retain their job for a long time.<\/p>\n

Now \u00a0is the time for Monkey Jumping in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 They have more than one Benz, with no bank loans.\u00a0 They have more than one mansion, with no bank loans.\u00a0 They have more than one lucrative business, with no bank financing.\u00a0 They have more than one spouse with no commitment\u00a0 for children.<\/p>\n

These Monkeys have other commitments.\u00a0 Most of them have their own children studying overseas, requiring funds.\u00a0 They have spouses who are used to extravagant living, regardless of source of revenue.<\/p>\n

It is becoming clear that most Monkeys belonging to the symbol of Hand, Chair or Betel Leaf\u201d are now looking at jumping on to the Elephant.\u00a0 But there are not sure if that the right choice.\u00a0 So the Poor Lotus\u201d is being targeted with various excuses.<\/p>\n

The Monkey Business is difficult. If I have 51 monkeys and need 120,\u00a0 the first batch could come relatively cheap, the second batch will demand much more.\u00a0 If I get 112 monkeys, finding an extra money will be quite expensive.\u00a0 To get the safety margin, I need 7 more monkeys.<\/p>\n

I have identified some monkeys that I will never have.\u00a0 But, now the situation is getting tighter as I have got 113 monkeys, there are several monkeys waiting outside to meet me.\u00a0 Some \u00a0are even from Panduwasnuwara.<\/p>\n

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage\u201d.\u00a0 H L MENCKEN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0 M D P DISSANAYAKE Finding coconut pluckers is extremely difficult in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Still there are few old folks willing to climb the trees\u00a0 at a premium price.\u00a0 These old folks normally start work around 8 am and take a tea break at 10 and start again in 30 minutes and stop working at […]<\/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-68414","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\/68414","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=68414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}