{"id":93587,"date":"2019-10-05T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T20:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93587"},"modified":"2019-10-05T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T20:59:34","slug":"peoples-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/05\/peoples-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Peoples stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Today I watched the TV program where aspirants who intend to contest the presidential election were requested to table the program they intend to implement during their tenure if they win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regrettably, all of them talked about-creating \u00a0a utopian society\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of them did specify the revolutionary changes we need\ntoday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lack of discipline among the young generation in the cities, on the road, and in public transport. Was never discussed or explained<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I expected at least one of them to promise to control indiscipline\nby promoting national service in the country to make them disciplined and\nrespectable &nbsp;people when they complete training&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second proposal I expected them to promise to implement is strict punishment for graft and for drug distribution to make the society safe\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the four minutes at least one of them could have\npromised to undertake such tasks&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am personally not impressed by any of them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr S Obeysekera&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Today I watched the TV program where aspirants who intend to contest the presidential election were requested to table the program they intend to implement during their tenure if they win. Regrettably, all of them talked about-creating \u00a0a utopian society\u00a0 None of them did specify the revolutionary changes we need today Lack [&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-93587","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\/93587","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=93587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}