{"id":3086,"date":"2008-10-21T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2008-10-22T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T06:14:38","slug":"get-in-line-along-with-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200810\/get-in-line-along-with-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Get in Line Along With Everyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger, which, to go by common consensus, seems to have won an undeserved Booker, <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/rssarticleshow\/msid-3600792,prtpage-1.cms\">has said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, where&#8217;s this Shining India everyone&#8217;s talking about? It was time someone broke the myth&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last time I checked, there is a\u00a0huge queue of people\u00a0waiting to bust the myth of Shining India and collect their publisher&#8217;s advance. Why does every single one of them feel the need to pretend that he is the first one to bust the myth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger, which, to go by common consensus, seems to have won an undeserved Booker, has said: So, where&#8217;s this Shining India everyone&#8217;s talking about? It was time someone broke the myth&#8230; The last time I checked, there is a\u00a0huge queue of people\u00a0waiting to bust the myth of Shining [&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":[213,215,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086"}],"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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}