{"id":68941,"date":"2017-08-15T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68941"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:02:16","slug":"language-classes-for-mps-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/15\/language-classes-for-mps-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR MPs\u2026..News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Since the TV started showing the parliament proceedings ,our children have heard many Sinhala Words like ,Balla.Booruwa,Gona.Rilawa,Ballige Putha \u00a0\u00a0which are the names of animals in Sinhala .We also heard one when PM called another MP a Dried Pumpkin and the MP called MP  arse hole  ) Pakkaya ! etc<\/p>\n<p>We never hear any English or Tamil speaking MP uses any harsh words like F..ng Idiot ,C\u2026t ,M,,r F\u2026r etc ?<\/p>\n<p>Most probably these Sinhala speaking MP\u2019s may start using those words which look more offensive if they learn more languages like English<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that none of the MP\u2019s need any language classes. What they need is classes to behave like human beings .They need meditation classes to learn tolerance and foster compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Since the TV started showing the parliament proceedings ,our children have heard many Sinhala Words like ,Balla.Booruwa,Gona.Rilawa,Ballige Putha \u00a0\u00a0which are the names of animals in Sinhala .We also heard one when PM called another MP a Dried Pumpkin and the MP called MP arse hole ) Pakkaya ! etc We never hear [&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-68941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68941","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=68941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}