{"id":43870,"date":"2020-01-18T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43870"},"modified":"2020-01-18T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:26:01","slug":"%e2%80%9cmyan-prince%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/%e2%80%9cmyan-prince%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMYAN PRINCE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unenlightenment prevailing<br \/>\nCrass ignorance pertaining<br \/>\nThe empty headed half baked fools<br \/>\nUnscholarly unread<br \/>\nSuffering tunnel vision<br \/>\nUnqualified and shallow<br \/>\nToo many temple wallers<br \/>\nSeemingly are led<br \/>\nBack into their darkness<br \/>\nArtless in the way<br \/>\nThey comprehend a incident<br \/>\nAnd make another pay<br \/>\nChained up and whipped<br \/>\nSRI LANKA hears<br \/>\nThe violence curdles<br \/>\nFrom its ears<br \/>\nCOLOMBO shudders<br \/>\nAs do we<br \/>\nWho witness \u201cMYAN PRINCE\u201d and be<br \/>\nLost for words<br \/>\nThe temple\u2019s act<br \/>\nTo beat a soul<br \/>\nAnd thus attract<br \/>\nSuch negative bewilderment<br \/>\nCredulous to so react<br \/>\nA monk was killed<br \/>\nThat maybe true<br \/>\nBut why and how<br \/>\nTo take a view<br \/>\nThe elephant the guilty soul<br \/>\nTo be beaten<br \/>\nAnd to lose control<br \/>\nOf sanity<br \/>\nSuch  awful cries<br \/>\nSuch cruelty truly defies<\/p>\n<p>Temples are no place to be<br \/>\nElephants old souls free<br \/>\nchained in cloisters<br \/>\nLost in darkness<br \/>\nBroken hearted<br \/>\nJoyless lifeless<br \/>\nBELLANWILA Bhuddist haven<br \/>\nUp against what appears craven<br \/>\nA state of mind<br \/>\nA cruel display<br \/>\nTransgressing now<br \/>\nIn every way<br \/>\nIndefensible such an act<br \/>\nVicious and sinful<br \/>\nAbandoning tact<br \/>\nLosing control<br \/>\nA felony<br \/>\nSuch flagellation<br \/>\nShould never be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unenlightenment prevailing Crass ignorance pertaining The empty headed half baked fools Unscholarly unread Suffering tunnel vision Unqualified and shallow Too many temple wallers Seemingly are led Back into their darkness Artless in the way They comprehend a incident And make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/%e2%80%9cmyan-prince%e2%80%9d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43872,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870\/revisions\/43872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}