{"id":346,"date":"2005-06-23T20:58:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/06\/23\/it-is-raining-heavily-outside\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T15:28:27","slug":"it-is-raining-heavily-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200506\/it-is-raining-heavily-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"It is raining heavily outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and it reminds me that the toughest thing about learning English to me wasn&#8217;t understanding the grammar. It was figuring out that words like &#8220;sunny&#8221; and &#8220;warm&#8221; are supposed to have <i>good<\/i>  connotations and that &#8220;rainy&#8221; and &#8220;cold&#8221; are supposed to be bad. We Mumbaikars <i>like it<\/i> when it rains. I understand Britons hating rains. But for us, it gives respite from the summer and leaves just as we start getting bored of it. Plus, we get a holiday from school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and it reminds me that the toughest thing about learning English to me wasn&#8217;t understanding the grammar. It was figuring out that words like &#8220;sunny&#8221; and &#8220;warm&#8221; are supposed to have good connotations and that &#8220;rainy&#8221; and &#8220;cold&#8221; are supposed to be bad. We Mumbaikars like it when it rains. I understand Britons hating [&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\/346"}],"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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}