{"id":83445,"date":"2018-11-18T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83445"},"modified":"2018-11-18T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T18:45:42","slug":"price-of-horse-and-an-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/18\/price-of-horse-and-an-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Price of horse and an MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Six hundred million rupees to buy a MP can be used to build boatyards<\/p>\n<p>When I heard that opposition MP\u2019s price tag is as same as the price tag of a race horse with a pedigree.<\/p>\n<p>These horses like Green Monkey which is a Thorough Bred was 16 million rupees<\/p>\n<p>Our green monkey who jumps from one \u00a0tree to another who are not thoroughbred like real horses cost 5 million US dollars !!!<\/p>\n<p>Being in the Industry in developing boatyards and Marinas in Sri Lanka we can build 22 boat yards \u00a0in all fishery harbours with the money they would spend to buy \u00a010 green MP\u2019s .These boatyards can provide employment to. Over 25000 youths and generate \u00a0a billion dollars annually for Sri Lankan economy.Fishing folks can be provided with modern boats with ice making plants which reduce deterioration of fish during the voyage.<\/p>\n<p>I was passing by Mirissa Harbour to observe how we have failed to develop the harbours and Yacht Marinas<\/p>\n<p>People may be wondering who has such colossal amount of money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA\u00a0 Six hundred million rupees to buy a MP can be used to build boatyards When I heard that opposition MP\u2019s price tag is as same as the price tag of a race horse with a pedigree. These horses like Green Monkey which is a Thorough Bred was 16 million rupees Our green [&hellip;]<\/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-83445","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\/83445","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=83445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}