{"id":32521,"date":"2022-03-07T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/national-homage-to-the-death-of-sri-lankans-most-sacred-elephant-photos\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:37:15","slug":"national-homage-to-the-death-of-sri-lankans-most-sacred-elephant-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/national-homage-to-the-death-of-sri-lankans-most-sacred-elephant-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"National homage to the death of Sri Lankan&#8217;s most sacred elephant (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"firstP\">\n<p>The holiest elephant in Sri Lanka carrying the golden ark at the annual Buddhist festival has died today at the age of 68, causing national mourning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nadunga-muva Raja was the most important among the 100 elephants used at the Tooth Temple festival in central Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>National outrage over the death has prompted the president to order the giant corpse embalmed and preserved for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Today a long procession of priests and mourners paid their respects to Raja, praying and touching his teeth.<\/p>\n<p>President Gotabaia ordered the animal to be declared a national treasure and preserved for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>After the rites, Raja surrendered to scientists for Buddhist funeral rites and balaasmojen, he told authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>top channel<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\tvar ajaxurl = \"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\";<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Google Analytics\n\t\twindow.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\tfunction gtag() {\n\t\t\tdataLayer.push(arguments);\n\t\t}\n\t\tgtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>\t\tgtag('config', 'UA-7855069-1');<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Facebook\n\t\twindow.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n\t\t\tFB.init({\n\t\t\t\tappId: '1715618661991455',\n\t\t\t\txfbml: true,\n\t\t\t\tversion: 'v2.10'\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t\tFB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n\t\t};<\/p>\n<p>\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) {\n\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s);\n\t\t\tjs.id = id;\n\t\t\tjs.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/2022\/03\/07\/homazhe-kombetare-per-vdekjen-e-elefantit-me-te-shenjte-te-sri-lankas-fotot\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The holiest elephant in Sri Lanka carrying the golden ark at the annual Buddhist festival has died today at the age of 68, causing national mourning. Nadunga-muva Raja was the most important among the 100 elephants used at the Tooth Temple festival in central Sri Lanka. National outrage over the death has prompted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[2346,5642,5070,14978,1853,1388,7417,14977],"class_list":["post-32521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attualita","tag-death","tag-elephant","tag-homage","tag-lankans","tag-national","tag-photos","tag-sacred","tag-sri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}