{"id":1227,"date":"2019-10-03T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofcey.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1227"},"modified":"2019-10-08T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:53:54","slug":"the-city-that-fought-for-autonomy-while-all-around-it-fell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/destinations\/kandy\/tales-of-kandy\/the-city-that-fought-for-autonomy-while-all-around-it-fell\/","title":{"rendered":"The City that Fought for Autonomy While All Around It Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>An impenetrable rock guards a kingdom, a sacred tooth gives power to its monarchy, a prophecy strengthens the independent spirit of its people. The city that stubbornly stood its ground in the face of foreign invasions has a fascinating past, coloured by political turmoil, bravery and deep spirituality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having valiantly fought off advances by Portuguese and Dutch forces in the 16th and 17th centuries, Kandy holds the honour of being the last Sri Lankan kingdom to finally succumb to the British in 1815. Although it managed to stand its ground against the European colonizers for a considerable period, the Kandy Kingdom was rife with political turmoil and internal struggles which slowly weakened its position, eventually making it vulnerable to the British.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An impenetrable rock guards a kingdom, a sacred tooth gives power to its monarchy, a prophecy strengthens the independent spirit of its people. The city that stubbornly stood its ground in the face of foreign invasions has a fascinating past, coloured by political turmoil, bravery and deep spirituality. Having valiantly fought off advances by Portuguese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":615,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1227","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=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1227\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}