{"id":87816,"date":"2019-04-27T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T01:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87816"},"modified":"2019-04-27T18:12:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T01:12:46","slug":"sri-lankas-plight%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/27\/sri-lankas-plight%ef%bb%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Plight\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The peace that\ngreat men reached and kept<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were not attained\nin sudden flight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They, while their\ncompanions slept<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were toiling\nupwards in the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When lesser people\ncame to be in charge of protecting this right,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not realising the\nneed for security and intelligence so tight,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Began gradually\ndismantling both of these out of Lanka\u2019s site,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result was\nEaster Sunday\u2019s gruesome sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add to this a\ndysfunctional admin not talking to each other seated or standing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The writing was on\nthe wall for all to see without any hounding, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least\nnow,&nbsp;bow to the wanting of Lanka\u2019s people of all standing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resign, and\n&nbsp;the hand the reigns over to others with so much more standing. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse\nMNZM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellington NZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ The peace that great men reached and kept Were not attained in sudden flight They, while their companions slept Were toiling upwards in the night. When lesser people came to be in charge of protecting this right, Not realising the need for security and intelligence so tight, Began gradually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87816","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=87816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}