{"id":92813,"date":"2022-05-30T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=92813"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:42:58","slug":"wild-cats-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wild-cats-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WILD-CATS&#8221; by Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #003300; font-size: 24px;\">&#8220;WILD-CATS&#8221; by Des Kelly<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJyf3ogP2oI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Very strange indeed, how these subjects suddenly pop up, out of nowhere, it seems, because this writer began following an Aussie-rules Football team from the town of Geelong, Melbourne, Australia, named &#8220;CATS&#8221;. Why did I begin to follow this team ?, simply because Geelong rhymed with Ceylon, the Country I loved, but had to leave reluctantly, like so many thousands of &#8220;Burgher Buggers&#8221;, when the &#8220;Sinhala-only&#8221; policy was introduced by a latter-day P.M., with the initials S.W.R.D. For him, KARMA followed. F.Y.I. Karma is a word originating from, believe it, or not, a Sinhala\/Sanscrit word &#8220;KARUME&#8217; , (pronounced Karumay). That said, your&#8217;s truly then recorded anither song in Australia called The Rise And Fall Of Flingle Bunt, (don&#8217;t know who HE was, but BUNT is another strange name), and guess what ??, I recorded this Instrumental with a group named &#8220;The Wildcats&#8221;. NOW, PLEASE WATCH THIS DOCO about these fascinating animals from Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75796 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Desmond-Kelly-2.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond-Kelly\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Desmond Kelly.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(Editor-in-Chief) e&#8217;Lanka.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WILD-CATS&#8221; by Des Kelly Very strange indeed, how these subjects suddenly pop up, out of nowhere, it seems, because this writer began following an Aussie-rules Football team from the town of Geelong, Melbourne, Australia, named &#8220;CATS&#8221;. 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