{"id":441,"date":"2006-03-04T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2006-03-04T08:58:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T03:28:04","slug":"i-really-need-to-post-something-before-they-get-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200603\/i-really-need-to-post-something-before-they-get-suspicious\/","title":{"rendered":"I really need to post something before they get suspicious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the US on a business visa. Under the terms of the visa, I cannot do any actual work here. I can hold meetings, train people and get trained, etc.  but I can&#8217;t do any actual work. I am pretty sure that FBI agents (or whoever is in charge of these things) visit my blog every day (Hi!), and are at this very moment wondering why on earth I have not posted for so many days. &#8220;What <em>could<\/em> he be doing? Is he by some chance <em>working<\/em>?&#8221; So this post is just to assure them that though I&#8217;ve been absurdly busy in meetings and stuff, I&#8217;ve not actually been working. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I also have a B2 visa, (B1 and B2 are normally given together) which allows me to roam around as a tourist. Unfortunately the snow and cold have ensured that I haven&#8217;t done much touristing. But I do hope to travel to DC on <a href=\"http:\/\/chocolateandgoldcoins.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/dc-bloggers-meet.html\">11th March<\/a> to meet other bloggers. I am  particularly looking forward to meeting Michael, Chetan and Greatbong. Of course,  I&#8217;ve made clear my inability to participate in any coup attempt on the American government, as I am pretty sure that doing so would violate the terms of my visa. In fact,  when I was landing at Newark, they gave me a card which asked &#8220;Do you plan to enter the United States to carry out a violent insurgency against the government?&#8221; I answered &#8220;No&#8221;, signed it and gave it to the INS official. So I guess if I now try to overthrow the American government, I will be commiting perjury, which, to the best of my knowledge,  is illegal in the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the US on a business visa. Under the terms of the visa, I cannot do any actual work here. I can hold meetings, train people and get trained, etc. but I can&#8217;t do any actual work. I am pretty sure that FBI agents (or whoever is in charge of these things) visit my [&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\/441"}],"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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}