{"id":83532,"date":"2018-11-20T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83532"},"modified":"2018-11-20T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T23:01:43","slug":"once-again-sun-rises-with-hope-for-sri-lanka-prof-hudson-mclean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/20\/once-again-sun-rises-with-hope-for-sri-lanka-prof-hudson-mclean\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again Sun Rises with Hope for Sri Lanka &#8211; Prof. Hudson McLean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Having read the professional scrip of HLD Mahindapala, I decided to re-enter LankaWeb.<\/p>\n<p>Three years I watched the antics of Ranil W and his mob raking the Sri Lankan green fields to the bare barren earth.<\/p>\n<p>Today I read the excellent prose of <strong>HLD Mahindapala<\/strong>, the evergreen of Sri Lankan journalism, factual, well presented, a joy to read. Thank you Sir!<\/p>\n<p>Whatever said &amp; done, the future of Mother Lanka may rest with ex-President <strong>Mahinda Rajapaksa,<\/strong> as the Prime Minister, and his erstwhile brother <strong>Gotabhaya, <\/strong>who might ditch his American citizenship, and claim the Presidential seat.<\/p>\n<p>One point I wish to point out to our Lankaweb patriotic scribes, that, the future of predominant Buddhist Sri Lanka must rest with an indivisible patriotism, whether one is a Tamil Hindu, or a Muslim or a Christian Catholic.\u00a0 Those who do not agree, should find pastures elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope, for the glorious Sri Lankan future, the electorate will cast their ballot with the best for the future of their net of kin.<\/p>\n<p>May God Bless the Pearl of Asia!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Express Your Opinion &#8211; Read What Others Say!<br \/>\nThe Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit -: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean Having read the professional scrip of HLD Mahindapala, I decided to re-enter LankaWeb. Three years I watched the antics of Ranil W and his mob raking the Sri Lankan green fields to the bare barren earth. Today I read the excellent prose of HLD Mahindapala, the evergreen of Sri Lankan journalism, factual, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83532","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=83532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}