{"id":70737,"date":"2017-10-17T22:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T04:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=70737"},"modified":"2017-10-17T04:36:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:36:44","slug":"an-ode-to-rw-discede-rw-discede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/17\/an-ode-to-rw-discede-rw-discede\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to RW \u2013 Discede RW Discede"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Gandara John (With Apologies to Sir Walter Scott)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,<\/p>\n<p>Who never to himself hath said,<\/p>\n<p>This is my own, my native land!<\/p>\n<p>Whose heart hath ne\u2019er within him burn\u2019d,<\/p>\n<p>As home his footsteps he hath turn\u2019d<\/p>\n<p>From wandering on a foreign strand!<\/p>\n<p>Alas, there breathes such a man in Lanka fair.<\/p>\n<p>He struts at home and creeps\u00a0abroad with cabbages and kings.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly he sells, as his wont, just like his cronies queer, unable to differentiate between country and self.<\/p>\n<p>He shames his school and his land, as he sells his Matha to Caucasian trash.<\/p>\n<p>Go, mark him well;<\/p>\n<p>For him no Minstrel raptures swell;<\/p>\n<p>High though his titles, proud his name,<\/p>\n<p>Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Despite those titles, power, and pelf,<\/p>\n<p>The wretch, concentred all in self,<\/p>\n<p>Living, shall forfeit fair renown,<\/p>\n<p>And, doubly dying, shall go down<\/p>\n<p>To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,<\/p>\n<p>Unwept, unhonour\u2019d, and unsung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gandara John (With Apologies to Sir Walter Scott) Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne\u2019er within him burn\u2019d, As home his footsteps he hath turn\u2019d From wandering on a foreign strand! Alas, there breathes such 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-70737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70737","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=70737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}