{"id":2602,"date":"2003-01-08T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/08\/wishful-thinking\/"},"modified":"2003-01-08T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T17:37:22","slug":"wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishful thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2003\/jan\/08praful.htm\">Praful Bidwai <\/a><br \/>It also contains this obligatory lie:<br \/>&#8220;It is the Hindutva ideologues who founded the Two-Nation Theory.&#8221; <br \/>Wrong. It was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan who first propounded the two-nation theory &#8211; in the late 19th century, and the demand for Pakistan was made formall? by the Muslim League in 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Praful Bidwai It also contains this obligatory lie:&#8220;It is the Hindutva ideologues who founded the Two-Nation Theory.&#8221; Wrong. It was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan who first propounded the two-nation theory &#8211; in the late 19th century, and the demand for Pakistan was made formall? by the Muslim League in 1937.<\/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\/2602"}],"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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}