{"id":2551,"date":"2002-11-14T21:03:54","date_gmt":"2002-11-14T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/14\/i-am-back\/"},"modified":"2002-11-14T21:03:54","modified_gmt":"2002-11-14T15:33:54","slug":"i-am-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200211\/i-am-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I am back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I wish I wasn&#8217;t.<br \/>I know that my two fans are dying to know about my secret mission. It can now be revealed that the mission objective was to warn a cousin of the pitfalls of marriage. Of course I failed in the mission (as I have failed with every one of my friends) and he plunged head-long into wedded life. Fortunately, I had a Plan B, which I immediately put into effect- I took part in the festivities and had a nice time.<\/p>\n<p>The mission was carried out in the strategically located port town of Mangalore, the prettiest place on earth, whose main exports are cashewnut, religion and smart people (like me). <\/p>\n<p>My poetic mind was very reluctant to let me leave that lush green idyll of coconut groves and laid-back lives. But now I am back. Which brings me back to my original point. I wish I wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I wish I wasn&#8217;t.I know that my two fans are dying to know about my secret mission. It can now be revealed that the mission objective was to warn a cousin of the pitfalls of marriage. Of course I failed in the mission (as I have failed with every one of my friends) and [&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\/2551"}],"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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}