{"id":1568,"date":"2005-05-17T02:18:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1568"},"modified":"2005-05-17T00:29:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T05:29:39","slug":"but_was_he_mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/but_was_he_mind\/","title":{"rendered":"But was he mindful of how it tasted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4551715.stm\">Abuse of trust<\/a>&#8212; it&#8217;s not just for Catholics anymore:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>A Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka has tried to commit suicide after he was jailed for raping a nine-year-old girl.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\nBellana Pannaloka Thero, of the Sri Vimalarama temple in Nugegoda, near Colombo, drank a substance from his pocket shortly after sentencing.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\n&#8230;Monks play a highly influential role in Sri Lanka, whose 19m population is about 70% Buddhist.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The 42-year old insecticide-guzzling perv is in critical condition after his cowardly attempt to avoid spending 20 years in prison.    <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuse of trust&#8212; it&#8217;s not just for Catholics anymore: A Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka has tried to commit suicide after he was jailed for raping a nine-year-old girl. Bellana Pannaloka Thero, of the Sri Vimalarama temple in Nugegoda, near &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/but_was_he_mind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}