{"id":2482,"date":"2002-08-14T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2002-08-14T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/14\/so-here-is-the-deal\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T12:14:10","slug":"so-here-is-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200208\/so-here-is-the-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"So here is the deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second attempt to keep a web log. I am sure no one noticed my first. I did not go out of my way to publicise it because I was dissatisfied with what I was putting out.<br \/>\nSo I am trying again. This blog will contain commentary on the stuff that interest me &#8211; management, philosophy, technology, economics, literature, politics and of course, et cetera. The operative word is &#8216;commentary&#8217;. I will be putting thought into what I write, which means that the posts will be longish by blog standards and will approximate one per day. If I really have a lot to say about something, I will be putting it in my <a href=\"articles\">articles section<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This will <em>not<\/em> be an online diary. I am too private a person for that, and my life is too boring for you. Some sketchy outdated information is available <a href=\"personal\">here<\/a>. Careful there &#8211; don&#8217;t step on a broken link!<\/li>\n<li>There won&#8217;t be a post which simply links to interesting stuff, though I will soon add a continually updated list of links somewhere else on the site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottomline: If I have nothing to say, I will keep mum.<br \/>\nOf course, there will be the mandatory blogroll. If time permits, I will soon add a section discussing books.<br \/>\nSo that&#8217;s it for now, Tell me what you think of the concept, the layout and my posts Use the comments link below. I love hearing abuse <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/wp2\/wp-admin\/images\/smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second attempt to keep a web log. I am sure no one noticed my first. I did not go out of my way to publicise it because I was dissatisfied with what I was putting out. So I am trying again. This blog will contain commentary on the stuff that interest me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482"}],"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=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}