{"id":92255,"date":"2019-08-15T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92255"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:45:11","slug":"70-year-old-tikiri-taken-back-to-kegalle-following-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/15\/70-year-old-tikiri-taken-back-to-kegalle-following-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old \u2018Tikiri\u2019 taken back to Kegalle following controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The emaciated 70-year old elephant named \u2018Tikiri\u2019, whose photos were widely shared on social media for being walked in the Esala Perahera, was taken back to Kegalle yesterday (14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Secretary of Captive Elephant Owners\u2019 Association of Sri Lanka Dharmasiri Karunaratne said the owner of \u2018Tikiri\u2019 had walked the elephant in the parade to fulfill a promise made to God Vishnu.<\/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=\"\u0da7\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd2 \u0db1\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dad\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dd1\u0d9c\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0da7...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QxlruX1ANNs?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>He stressed that \u2018Tikiri\u2019 is in a good health condition while refuting the backlash received from social media recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also emphasized that this was not done with the intention of gaining money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Save Elephant Foundation, set up by Thailand\u2019s elephant whisperer\u201d Lek Chailert, has shared the photos of \u2018Tikiri\u2019 that show every rib in her body and raw-looking skin on her trunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, it was reported that the \u2018Tikiri\u2019 was removed from participating in the remaining parades of Dalada Perahera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The emaciated 70-year old elephant named \u2018Tikiri\u2019, whose photos were widely shared on social media for being walked in the Esala Perahera, was taken back to Kegalle yesterday (14). The Secretary of Captive Elephant Owners\u2019 Association of Sri Lanka Dharmasiri Karunaratne said the owner of \u2018Tikiri\u2019 had walked the elephant in the parade [&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-92255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92255","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=92255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}