{"id":3993,"date":"2020-01-29T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/?page_id=3993"},"modified":"2020-01-30T08:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T08:19:33","slug":"angampora-sri-lankas-unique-art-of-combat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/tales-of-ceylon\/tales-of-angampora\/angampora-sri-lankas-unique-art-of-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Angampora &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Unique Art of Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Angampora is a uniquely Sri Lankan art of fighting, created thousands of years ago by the island\u2019s early inhabitants to protect their communities and eventually the sovereignty of the nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harking back to the days of yore, Sri Lanka has been a paradise island rich in natural resources, fertile land, as well as tradable commodities. The natural splendour of the island is what drew many from far and wide to its shores throughout history. As the nation began to attract the attention of outsiders who recognized the potential of the land, the natives found themselves having to defend their territories and communities from foreign aggressors, in addition to fighting internal squabbles and disputes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angampora is a uniquely Sri Lankan art of fighting, created thousands of years ago by the island\u2019s early inhabitants to protect their communities and eventually the sovereignty of the nation. Harking back to the days of yore, Sri Lanka has been a paradise island rich in natural resources, fertile land, as well as tradable commodities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":3989,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3993","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=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3993\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}