{"id":436,"date":"2006-02-07T23:42:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2006\/02\/07\/where-have-i-been\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T23:42:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T18:12:41","slug":"where-have-i-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200602\/where-have-i-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have I been?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy with a job-change and stuff. Will be busy for some more time, till I get stuff into shape and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be in New Jersey from 10 Feb 2006 for a month or so.  Anyone in New Jersey? Leave a comment. <\/p>\n<p>So what has been happening in the Indian Blogosphere when I wasn&#8217;t paying attention? Ah, yes, there has been the start of an exciting new blog that has rather pompously set out to educate us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherindia.org\/\">How the Other Half Lives.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A commendable initiative, but the posts are too long to read. I am too hardhearted and too busy making money to go through them.  I&#8217;ve fully read only one post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherindia.org\/general\/fasten-your-seat-belts.html\">this famous post<\/a> by Dilip, that seems to have generated the maximum acrimony and the most comments.  My only thought is, whatever possessed him to include Airport employees in &#8220;the other half&#8221;? How rich must the rest of the country be if someone drawing a Central government payscale qualifies as part of the &#8220;bottom half&#8221; of the population? Is this a tacit claim by him that poverty has become history in India?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy with a job-change and stuff. Will be busy for some more time, till I get stuff into shape and stuff. I shall be in New Jersey from 10 Feb 2006 for a month or so. Anyone in New Jersey? Leave a comment. So what has been happening in the Indian Blogosphere when I wasn&#8217;t [&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\/436"}],"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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}