{"id":89896,"date":"2019-06-05T22:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T04:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89896"},"modified":"2019-06-05T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:57:48","slug":"mangala-tweets-in-response-to-gampaha-chief-prelates-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/05\/mangala-tweets-in-response-to-gampaha-chief-prelates-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangala tweets in response to Gampaha Chief Prelates\u2019 decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mangala-Tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mangala-Tweet.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mangala-Tweet-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Prelates of temples in Gampaha have jointly decided not to engage Ministers Mangala Samaraweera and Rajitha Senaratne and MP Chathura Senaratne in any religious activities held at temples in Gampaha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision was taken yesterday (04) at the meeting of the Gampaha District Shasanarakshaka Bala Mandalaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dbd\u0da7 \u0d91\u0dbb\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dc0 \u0db7\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dd6\u0db1\u0dca \u0db8\u0dc4\u0db8\u0d9f \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dba\u0d9a\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eP40sO7GneE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera responded to this decision by posting a message in Sinhala on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that Lord Buddha was a great man who didn\u2019t close the doors to his temple to even persons like \u2018Devadatta\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Chief Prelates of temples in Gampaha have jointly decided not to engage Ministers Mangala Samaraweera and Rajitha Senaratne and MP Chathura Senaratne in any religious activities held at temples in Gampaha. This decision was taken yesterday (04) at the meeting of the Gampaha District Shasanarakshaka Bala Mandalaya. However, the Minister of Finance Mangala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89896","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=89896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}