{"id":54,"date":"2004-05-31T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=54"},"modified":"2004-05-31T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T17:34:25","slug":"a-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200405\/a-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"A confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make. I have committed a serious transgression, one that if it goes unpunished will earn me expulsion from the Cartel and the undying hatred of all right-thinking and decent bloggers. <\/p>\n

I am finding it extremely difficult to type out this post. Even as I type this, a voice within me says, “Don’t! No one will ever know! It’s all right!” <\/p>\n

But I will know and unless I own up, I shall never be able to sleep again.<\/p>\n

I bought a copy of the One Novel That Cannot be Named, written by The Verbal Terrorist. <\/p>\n

No! Don’t look at me like that! I did not even buy a legal copy. What do you take me for? A Mallu?<\/a> I bought a pirated copy and that too second hand. I didn’t hand her any of my money! I was just strolling along Matunga casually looking at the many roadside bookstalls, thinking “What could be worse than reading an essay by the Verbal Terrorist?” The answer was, “An entire book by the Verbal Terorist” And there I saw The One Novel That Cannot be Named and I don’t know what possessed me and… Hey I also bargained! If she ever writes another novel, it will not be because she got secondary encouragement from my purchase! Why are you staring at me? Look I’d throw it into the fire, but I thought I’d need to be able to have an answer the next time someone says “Her views are crap, but she writes really really well.” So probably I’ll read the thing. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I plan to read the book reaally slowly, one page at a time, so that there is less chance that I lose my sanity in one shot, and so that I’ll be able to give you guys a fair warning if it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make. I have committed a serious transgression, one that if it goes unpunished will earn me expulsion from the Cartel and the undying hatred of all right-thinking and decent bloggers. I am finding it extremely difficult to type out this post. Even as I type this, a voice within me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}