{"id":2656,"date":"2003-02-04T22:50:01","date_gmt":"2003-02-04T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/04\/times-group-diversifies-further\/"},"modified":"2003-02-04T22:50:01","modified_gmt":"2003-02-04T17:20:01","slug":"times-group-diversifies-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200302\/times-group-diversifies-further\/","title":{"rendered":"Times group diversifies further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would I do without the Timesgroup?<br \/>It tries to find me a <a href=\"http:\/\/dating.indiatimes.com\">date<\/a>, it provides me with <a href=\"http:\/\/chat.indiatimes.com\">chat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.indiatimes.com\">email<\/a>, shows me pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/photogallery.indiatimes.com\">scantily clad women<\/a>, brags endlessly about itself, gossips about every party thrown by people in my city &#8211; people whose only claim to fame is that they throw parties &#8211; and occasionally gives me some news.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is trying to be my secretary as well. You see, the paper version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economictimes.com\">Economic Times<\/a> is rea? by busy executives like me who have only a few seconds to glance at the newspaper. So the  guys over at the Times group have thoughtfully highlighted the important portions of the story. So the entire paper now looks as if it has been scribbled over by a marker pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would I do without the Timesgroup?It tries to find me a date, it provides me with chat and email, shows me pictures of scantily clad women, brags endlessly about itself, gossips about every party thrown by people in my city &#8211; people whose only claim to fame is that they throw parties &#8211; 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\/2656"}],"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=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}