{"id":3092,"date":"2008-10-24T14:07:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2008-10-24T14:07:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:37:22","slug":"wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200810\/wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Raj] Thackeray&#8217;s successes evidently left an impression on 1,900 employees of Jet Airways, who were fired last week thanks to the global financial crisis. They rushed to Thackeray&#8217;s office. He thundered that no Jet Airways flight would leave Mumbai until the employees were\u00a0rehired.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If an Indian politician said that a generation ago, it might have been empty bluster<\/strong>. Today, the threat was taken seriously enough that the airline&#8217;s chairman, Naresh Goyal, held telephone discussions with Thackeray. After Thackeray&#8217;s and others&#8217; lobbying, the employees were rehired the next\u00a0day. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/23\/asia\/letter.php\">Anand Giridharadhas\/IHT<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is it about these Indian\u00a0journalists joining foreign publications? Are lobotomies compulsory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Raj] Thackeray&#8217;s successes evidently left an impression on 1,900 employees of Jet Airways, who were fired last week thanks to the global financial crisis. They rushed to Thackeray&#8217;s office. He thundered that no Jet Airways flight would leave Mumbai until the employees were\u00a0rehired. If an Indian politician said that a generation ago, it might have [&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":[216,217,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092"}],"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=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}