{"id":356,"date":"2005-07-05T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T05:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/07\/05\/nice-simile\/"},"modified":"2005-07-05T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T05:57:03","slug":"nice-simile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200507\/nice-simile\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Simile"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like a novel where it is obvious from the outset that the two protagonists are meant for each other, but take hundreds of pages to get together&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3774301\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a> starts its article about the recent defence deal between India and the US. Whether you agree with the sentiment or not, don&#8217;t you agree that this sentence conveys that sentiment perfectly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a novel where it is obvious from the outset that the two protagonists are meant for each other, but take hundreds of pages to get together&#8230; That&#8217;s how the The Economist starts its article about the recent defence deal between India and the US. Whether you agree with the sentiment or not, don&#8217;t you [&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\/356"}],"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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}