{"id":147,"date":"2004-10-13T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=147"},"modified":"2004-10-13T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T20:48:54","slug":"a-lot-more-murders-would-be-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200410\/a-lot-more-murders-would-be-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"A lot more murders would be needed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gauravsabnis.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/close-encounters-of-dumb-kind-part-2.html\">Gaurav<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gauravsabnis.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/close-encounters-of-dumb-kind.html\">has<\/a> been rather unusually lucky in encountering stupidity. As for me, if ever I changed professions to become a serial killer, I&#8217;d specialise in killing ICICI Bank employees.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample conversation I had some years back. <\/p>\n<p><i>Me:<\/i> I&#8217;d like a DD drawn on Lucknow please. [I was paying off my educational loan]<br \/>\n<i>She: <\/i> We don&#8217;t have a branch in Lucknow. Would Hyderabad do?<br \/>\n<i>Me: <\/i> How would that help?<br \/>\n<i>She:<\/i> You&#8217;d save on charges. If we don&#8217;t have a branch in a place, we&#8217;d have to use correspondent banks and the charges for that will be higher&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Me:<\/i> But I want a DD on <i>Lucknow<\/i>. How would getting one drawn on <i>Hyderabad<\/i> help?<br \/>\n<i>She:<\/i> They are close by right?<\/p>\n<p>She had a narrow escape that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaurav has been rather unusually lucky in encountering stupidity. As for me, if ever I changed professions to become a serial killer, I&#8217;d specialise in killing ICICI Bank employees. Here is a sample conversation I had some years back. Me: I&#8217;d like a DD drawn on Lucknow please. [I was paying off my educational loan] [&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\/147"}],"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=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}