{"id":139,"date":"2004-10-06T16:35:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T21:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=139"},"modified":"2004-10-06T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T21:35:42","slug":"extraordinary-cartel-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200410\/extraordinary-cartel-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Cartel Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, for the first time in its history, the Cartel is faced with the disgraceful prospect of losing at the Blog Mela.  As of this writing, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madhoo.com\/polls\/september_poll.php\">fourth<\/a> in the polling, and I don&#8217;t think he has any chance whatsoever of pulling ahead.  I think that drastic measures need to be taken for us to be able to truthfully claim that the Cartel has never lost at the Mela hustings.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore propose that we expel Ravages from the membership of the Cartel. What do the others think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, for the first time in its history, the Cartel is faced with the disgraceful prospect of losing at the Blog Mela. As of this writing, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is running fourth in the polling, and I don&#8217;t think he has any chance whatsoever of pulling ahead. I think that drastic measures need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}