{"id":3064,"date":"2008-10-12T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2008-10-12T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:20:10","slug":"beyond-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200810\/beyond-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know that I should stop picking on random people on the net and argue with more substantive points, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the Indian farmers who refuse to give up their land \u2013 and thwarted plans to build the world\u2019s cheapest car in West Bengal &#8212; know one thing. As long as they have their land, their fate depends on the weather and the harvest. Once they leave their land, they face even greater uncertainties &#8212; from the job market to the world economy. Just like Singaporeans today. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrun.net\/weblog\/2008\/10\/what-indian-farmers-could-tell-mm-lee.html\">Abhijit<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose certain poverty is infinitely more preferable than fluctuating prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know that I should stop picking on random people on the net and argue with more substantive points, but&#8230; But the Indian farmers who refuse to give up their land \u2013 and thwarted plans to build the world\u2019s cheapest car in West Bengal &#8212; know one thing. As long as they have their [&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":[48,195,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064"}],"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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}