{"id":2609,"date":"2003-01-13T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2003-01-13T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/13\/42-kilometers42\/"},"modified":"2003-01-13T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2003-01-13T05:40:30","slug":"42-kilometers42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/42-kilometers42\/","title":{"rendered":"42 Kilometers!&amp;#42;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\">Kiruba<\/a> has won the Chennai Corporate Marathon and he has put up a pretty inspiring account on his blog.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I think if this irritating cough continues, I think I will just <i>start<\/i> smoking.  Why? For my children. At least if I am a smoker, I can warn my kids against smoking right? Otherwise, they&#8217;ll just turn around and say &#8220;Papa you never smoke and still cough all the time. How much worse can smoking be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the convoluted logic <img border=\"0\" src=\"images\\wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#42;Or is it 42 miles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiruba has won the Chennai Corporate Marathon and he has put up a pretty inspiring account on his blog. As for me, I think if this irritating cough continues, I think I will just start smoking. Why? For my children. At least if I am a smoker, I can warn my kids against smoking right? [&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\/2609"}],"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=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}