{"id":95288,"date":"2019-11-17T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95288"},"modified":"2019-11-17T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T08:24:15","slug":"letter-to-mr-gotabaya-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/17\/letter-to-mr-gotabaya-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>James Lasantha Jayalath Melbourne, Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dear Mr. Gotabaya,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you are well. I am not sure whether\nyou have time to read my message, but I hope you read it one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am one of the silent majority who wish\nand pray that you win with a majority tomorrow. I left my motherland when I was\n23 years old, but I still love the country I was born 60 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never had the opportunity to vote in my\nmotherland, but I always wish to see that my country will prosper and the\ninnocent people will have an opportunity to live peacefully no matter what\ntheir background or race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that you have a clear vision to lead\nthis country for the next 5 years. Hope and wish that you will have good health\nto lead this country for the next generation. I know that you have an agenda to\nhelp the youth especially kids who cannot continue their education after year\n12 exams, and unable to enter University. The country can prosper with a good leader,\nand I truly believe that you have a dream for this beautiful nation, and people\naround you will support you wholeheartedly for your vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please promote tourism like Vietnam where\nwe visited villagers on a group tour and we saw how they promote local\ncreations and allow people with talents to perform for tourists to make some\nmoney. Our motherland is rich with natural resources, and poor people should\nget some opportunity (creating local jobs) to earn a living not big\ncorporations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My last wish is to build up the economy you\nneed strong characters with qualification and knowledge and not people who\nshout and embarrassed you. You ran an excellent campaign and will reap the\nrewards tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May God protect and bless you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Lasantha Jayalath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Melbourne, Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lasantha Jayalath Melbourne, Australia Dear Mr. Gotabaya, Hope you are well. I am not sure whether you have time to read my message, but I hope you read it one day. I am one of the silent majority who wish and pray that you win with a majority tomorrow. I left my motherland when [&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-95288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95288","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=95288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}