{"id":75,"date":"2004-06-18T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T20:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=75"},"modified":"2004-06-18T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T20:25:49","slug":"pun-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200406\/pun-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pun of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Economist.com | Face value\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/people\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2765973\">Economist.com | Face value<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bikram&#8217;s licensing of his sequence, says Jim Harrison, a lawyer for OSYU, is thus less like selling the rights to a song and more like lecturing about the \u201cKama Sutra\u201d and then trying to charge couples a fee every time they have sex in one of the positions. Or, returning to that fast-food metaphor, like Bikram writing a new recipe for hamburgers and then showing up at barbecues to charge the people flipping the burgers<br \/>\nIntellectual-property law is crucial to economic success. But extending it to yoga will, <i>\u201dThe Economist&#8217;s<\/i> spiritually enlightened, physically limber journalists hope, prove too much of a stretch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist.com | Face value Bikram&#8217;s licensing of his sequence, says Jim Harrison, a lawyer for OSYU, is thus less like selling the rights to a song and more like lecturing about the \u201cKama Sutra\u201d and then trying to charge couples a fee every time they have sex in one of the positions. Or, returning to [&hellip;]<\/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\/75"}],"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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}