{"id":573,"date":"2019-10-01T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T11:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofcey.wpengine.com\/?page_id=573"},"modified":"2019-10-08T07:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T07:30:54","slug":"tales-of-colombo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/destinations\/colombo\/tales-of-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo was historically a simple port city that was home to many migrant traders. Colombo began to grow in prominence as a city only after the Portuguese colonizers recognized its importance as a key trading port and established a fort in its premises in the 16th century. Since then the city continued to develop under the Dutch and British colonizers who succeeded the Portuguese. Today, it is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city \u2013 the commercial heart of the country. Colombo may have a young history compared to its counterparts; however, it is still a very interesting history. Read on to learn more about the colourful past of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo was historically a simple port city that was home to many migrant traders. Colombo began to grow in prominence as a city only after the Portuguese colonizers recognized its importance as a key trading port and established a fort in its premises in the 16th century. Since then the city continued to develop under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-573","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}