{"id":91422,"date":"2019-07-15T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T22:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91422"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T22:18:50","slug":"without-shadow-of-a-doubt-it-was-the-greatest-game-ever-and-lessons-learnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/15\/without-shadow-of-a-doubt-it-was-the-greatest-game-ever-and-lessons-learnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Without shadow of a doubt ,it was the greatest game ever and lessons learnt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Yesterday we saw every element of good spirit , sense of\nresponsibility , integrity , showing one\u2019s courage in a fight until you live or\ndie, how not to give up the task entrusted until last breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can elaborate many such human qualities humans and\nanimals have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two teams of nations with players predominantly with fair\nskin colour, showed us how to fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were under the same race as a colony &nbsp;for many many\nyears .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They left our country after building much of the\ninfrastructure we need, and also the bureaucracy to govern .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they landed on our soil and walked into the resplendent\ninterior of the country, they determined to plant coffee and tea in a difficult\nterrain &nbsp;to earn money and spread their religion and culture to our people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We may condone what these nations did to us but we should\nlearn one thing .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should learn how to live with dignity and honestly and\nfoster courage and endurance ,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had few dark patches in our history after the Colonial\nPowers &nbsp;retreated &nbsp;who may have left some some scars &nbsp;in our\nminds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latest incidents involving Muslim extremism should not\nhamper our determination to overcome the emotional -feeling and hatred .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should fight and play together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally in yesterday\u2019s game we have seen how losing team\nbehaved in ,\u201d a gentleman\u2019s manner\u201d .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I felt sad about the Kiwis as they are also a gentle\nnation who have shown courage and patience &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; until the last\nbreadth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leave-out racism aside what our leftists and some clergy practice\nfor their own benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us learn from this great game&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Absorb\nwhat is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your\nown\u201d.&nbsp;Bruce\nLee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Yesterday we saw every element of good spirit , sense of responsibility , integrity , showing one\u2019s courage in a fight until you live or die, how not to give up the task entrusted until last breath. We can elaborate many such human qualities humans and animals have. Two teams of nations [&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-91422","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\/91422","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=91422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}