{"id":89965,"date":"2019-06-06T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89965"},"modified":"2019-06-06T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:21:51","slug":"%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%9d%e0%b6%a9-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%84%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%9a%e0%b6%bd%e0%b7%8f-%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%99%e0%b6%ad%e0%b7%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/06\/%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%9d%e0%b6%a9-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%84%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%9a%e0%b6%bd%e0%b7%8f-%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%99%e0%b6%ad%e0%b7%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;\u0db8\u0ddd\u0da9 \u0dc0\u0dc4\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc3\u0dda\u0dbd\u0dcf \u0db1\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf&#8221; &#8211; Mangala&#8217;s harsh response"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I am of the opinion that quite a few voters who had some\ngood opinion about the minister who held and now hold a responsible ministry in\nthe current government should guard his lashing tongue are now little confused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such irresponsible statements were made by Sir John\nKothalawala who uttered words like  Bituman tar may have to applied on monks\nbold heads  .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNP ended up with only seven seats in the subsequent\nelections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be monks who are almost behaving like laymen,but\ngeneralise many chief monks as &nbsp;.&#8221;\u0db8\u0ddd\u0da9 \u0dc0\u0dc4\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc3\u0dda\u0dbd\u0dcf is\nsurely not called for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am quite confident that UNP needs rebranding and change of\nguards if they want to face the people at any future election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antogonising buddhist as well as Christians by critisizing the\nHE cardinal and ven Ratana will be a disaster for the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all voted for Yahapalanaya ,but that does not mean\npoliticians can behave like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After seeing &nbsp;some pictures in the press where minister\ngives the impression that he is a canine fan,does not mean that he can bark at\nany tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA I am of the opinion that quite a few voters who had some good opinion about the minister who held and now hold a responsible ministry in the current government should guard his lashing tongue are now little confused. Such irresponsible statements were made by Sir John Kothalawala who uttered words like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89965","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\/89965","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=89965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}