{"id":317,"date":"2005-04-27T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/04\/27\/lessons-from-a-lampooning\/"},"modified":"2005-04-27T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T05:55:24","slug":"lessons-from-a-lampooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200504\/lessons-from-a-lampooning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from a lampooning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you are a normal person, you would know by now that I was the subject of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/04\/13\/how-i-write-acknowledgements\/#comments\">attempted lampooning<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I have no objection to being lampooned, but I am disappointed with the quality of lampoons that you find on the market these days.  So it is an unexpected pleasure to find one that actually reminds you of the good old days when lampooning was not yet industrialised. Then lampoons were hand-crafted and each one was different. The artist actually took pride in his product. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/18\/16\/news&#038;columns\/taibbi.cfm\">this lampooning <\/a> of Thomas Friedman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=theexaminedli-20&#038;creative=9325&#038;camp=1789&#038;link_code=ur2&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0374292884\/qid=1114580854\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1?v=glance%26s=books\">The World is Flat<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theexaminedli-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px important!\" \/> for a good example of the dying artform. I can only dream that some day I will write as badly as Thomas Friedman so that I too can be worthy of a personalised and well-crafted lampooning rather than an off-the-shelf one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you are a normal person, you would know by now that I was the subject of an attempted lampooning. I have no objection to being lampooned, but I am disappointed with the quality of lampoons that you find on the market these days. So it is an unexpected pleasure to find one that actually [&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\/317"}],"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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}