{"id":1076,"date":"2019-10-02T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofcey.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1076"},"modified":"2019-10-08T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:24:04","slug":"rumassala-the-myth-of-the-mountain-that-fell-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/destinations\/galle\/tales-of-galle\/rumassala-the-myth-of-the-mountain-that-fell-from-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumassala The Myth of the Mountain That Fell from the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A kidnapped princess, a heroic battle to save her, a fallen warrior, a flying god carrying a holy mountain of herbs to save him. The legend of Rumassala is closely linked with the epic tale of Rama and Sita; a story intertwined with much of the history of Sri Lanka.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the epic Sanskrit tale, the Ramayana, the re-incarnated god Lord Rama\u2019s wife was kidnapped and whisked far away by King Ravana. After months of searching, a distraught Rama and his younger brother Lakshmana traced Sita to Sri Lanka, thanks to the help of the immortal monkey demi-god Hanuman. Rama, Lakshmana, Hanuman and an entire army of men and monkeys waged war on Ravana\u2019s kingdom to rescue the kidnapped princess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kidnapped princess, a heroic battle to save her, a fallen warrior, a flying god carrying a holy mountain of herbs to save him. The legend of Rumassala is closely linked with the epic tale of Rama and Sita; a story intertwined with much of the history of Sri Lanka. According to the epic Sanskrit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":611,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1076","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1076\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}