{"id":2810,"date":"2003-09-29T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/29\/parting-quiz\/"},"modified":"2003-09-29T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2003-09-29T12:02:52","slug":"parting-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200309\/parting-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Parting quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who wrote this? Where is it taken from?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><small>The young?man had a peculiar defect in that he could neither accurately describe what he saw nor report what he heard. The only profession where these defects do not matter being journalism, he had gone on to become a journalist.<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(This is a paraphrase. It&#8217;s been a long time since I read the book, I don&#8217;t remember the exact words. I hope I haven&#8217;t changed the sense!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wrote this? Where is it taken from? The young?man had a peculiar defect in that he could neither accurately describe what he saw nor report what he heard. The only profession where these defects do not matter being journalism, he had gone on to become a journalist. (This is a paraphrase. It&#8217;s been a [&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\/2810"}],"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=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}