{"id":294,"date":"2005-04-08T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/04\/08\/letat-cest-moi\/"},"modified":"2005-04-08T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T13:40:17","slug":"letat-cest-moi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200504\/letat-cest-moi\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Etat, c&#8217;est moi."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I am really curious about. Do our leaders <i>know<\/i>  it when they are being hypocritical?  I mean, take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/full_story.php?content_id=67995\">Somnath Chatterjee<\/a>. He has been told that he won&#8217;t be allowed through diplomatic channels into Australia and he throws a fit. He can&#8217;t say &#8220;I am too important to be subject to frisking&#8221;, so he throws the &#8220;It&#8217;s not about me &#8211; it is the country&#8217;s prestige at stake&#8221; fit.  <\/p>\n<p>Do these guys <i>know<\/i> that they are lying? Or are they deceiving themselves too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I am really curious about. Do our leaders know it when they are being hypocritical? I mean, take Somnath Chatterjee. He has been told that he won&#8217;t be allowed through diplomatic channels into Australia and he throws a fit. He can&#8217;t say &#8220;I am too important to be subject to frisking&#8221;, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}