{"id":164,"date":"2005-04-18T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=164"},"modified":"2005-04-18T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T04:25:00","slug":"the-wave-of-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2005\/04\/18\/the-wave-of-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"The wave of relief&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">He was shocked when he got the call from the CM&#8217;s office. actually it was a combination of two shocks, one that the cm of a state could blatantly ask for a bribe, and two, they had found out the truth about his activities&#8230;<br \/>it was all because of his girlfriend&#8217;s stupid idea&#8230; when they had got into the <\/span><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">relationship, she was already an acknowledged star, and he was the star on the horizon.. the entire industry had heaped praise on his acting skills, and were sure <\/span><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">that he would be the next big thing in bollywood&#8230; but alas, all his films had bombed miserably, and he had gotten coverage for all the wrong reasons&#8230;<br \/>in a fit of rage, his girlfriend had told him that the only reason she wasnt leaving him was that she didnt want the tag of a &#8216;fair weather&#8217; girlfriend&#8230; she had a history of ditching her last boyfriend when he needed her most&#8230; but that didnt stop her from chiding him, whenever she got the chance&#8230; including saying that his theme song should be an mltr song that went &#8216; i&#8217;m not an actor, i&#8217;m not a star&#8217;&#8230;. and after she had come back from the international movie festival and tongues started wagging about the hollywood role, she had become intolerable&#8230;<br \/>that was around the time when the tsunami struck&#8230; that was when she came up with what at that time seemed a brilliant idea&#8230; she told him that the waves had done their job, and since he wasnt exactly making waves in his trade, he should get some good pr coverage by doing some relief work.. and in her typical bitchy fashion, she had said that his going off would be a relief to her too..<br \/>and so he had gone to the inflicted areas, and since he wasnt exactly cut out to do relief work, he had bribed the journalists to do stories about him.. he still remembered how difficult it was to get the natural looking photographs and testimonials&#8230;. and now, that state&#8217;s cm had come to know about it, and was threatening to let the secret out..he decided he couldnt afford to bribe her, he would rather bribe the journalists again, to prevent bad pr&#8230;<br \/>it was all because of his girlfriend&#8230; from now on, he decided he would stand up for himself and be v.oberoi, and stop being what his friends teased him to <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">be &#8211; v. obey rai!!<br \/>until next time, sometimes stars get struck too<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was shocked when he got the call from the CM&#8217;s office. actually it was a combination of two shocks, one that the cm of a state could blatantly ask for a bribe, and two, they had found out the truth about his activities&#8230;it was all because of his girlfriend&#8217;s stupid idea&#8230; when they had <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2005\/04\/18\/the-wave-of-relief\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}