{"id":80962,"date":"2018-09-13T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80962"},"modified":"2018-09-13T17:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T00:40:20","slug":"airline-removes-nuts-after-presidents-disclosure-to-err-is-human-but-to-forgive-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/13\/airline-removes-nuts-after-presidents-disclosure-to-err-is-human-but-to-forgive-divine\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline removes nuts after President\u2019s disclosure\u2026\u2026. To err is human but to forgive divine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The proverbial phrase ‘To err is human’ is often heard in its fuller form ‘to err is human; to forgive, divine.\u2019 This makes sense of the notion that the originator, the English poet Alexander Pope, was trying to convey. In the poem\u00a0An Essay on Criticism, Part II,<\/em> 1711. Pope explains that, while anyone can make a mistake, we should aspire to do as God does, that is, show mercy and forgive sinners:<\/p>\n

Personal experience in me can elaborate about a similar incident in Sri Lankan when I was flying sometime back<\/p>\n

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I asked for a cup of coffee in Business Class an I was served a cold coffee cup with a disposable milk packer by the staff .As the money I pay to fly\u00a0 Business Class is quite high I expected a usual proper serving of a coffee in a tray as per the usual practice by Sri Lankan .<\/p>\n

C called the stewardess and inquired about the coffee and asked whether Sri Lankan has gone bankrupt?<\/p>\n

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Excuse given immediately was that they are expecting turbulence, which was never in the public warning system as per usual practice<\/p>\n

I was not happy but staff immediately brought me a proper coffee in a tray.<\/p>\n

Even though I took photos at that time to write to Customer Care and complain I refrained as they corrected their mishandling.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless I filled a compliment sheet with positive feedback about the general service rendered by Sri Lankan which is above par when you compare with many other airlines<\/p>\n

So I thought Err is human but forgiving is divine!<\/p>\n

Cashew saga has generated such a hype about Sri Lankan and Joins have gone to town<\/p>\n

Villagers who were at the meeting where MS\u00a0 made this startling reveal they may have thought cashew should be our National Fruit in Sri Lanka which is Jack ?<\/p>\n

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May be Sri Lankan should serve Roasted Jack Seeds rather than Cashew??<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera The proverbial phrase ‘To err is human’ is often heard in its fuller form ‘to err is human; to forgive, divine.\u2019 This makes sense of the notion that the originator, the English poet Alexander Pope, was trying to convey. In the poem\u00a0An Essay on Criticism, Part II, 1711. Pope explains that, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80962","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=80962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}