{"id":367,"date":"2007-05-17T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=367"},"modified":"2021-01-03T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T08:42:19","slug":"and-while-on-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2007\/05\/17\/and-while-on-context\/","title":{"rendered":"..and while on context"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I suddenly realised that long before google came on the scene, we were used to the concept of context&#8230; a few days back, i had sent our recent goa photos to an old schoolmate, and instead of sending me a reply, the damn fellow decided to leave a scrap in my orkut account.. and so, i was forced to go to my not-so-favourite site and check it out&#8230; and while i was there, i also visited his page and couldnt resist checking out old schoolmates (or as SwB claims, peeking at old crushes, which i vehemently deny..hehe)&#8230; <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">we are all out of touch, except for the stray e-mail blasts that get launched every once in a while that someone feels particularly nostalgic&#8230;and its not just school friends- college friends, colleagues from previous jobs and so on&#8230; of course, maybe its just me, but i feel its quite a common thing to lose touch with people who were once an inseparable part of our lives&#8230;(perhaps that explains the success of orkut, because it gets one back in touch).. <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">and thats when i realised that perhaps, wittingly or unwittingly, we make contextual relationships- school, college, jobs.. and its not just people but sometimes even places and cities&#8230; and since these relationships are in context, they end when the context ends&#8230; and leaves in its wake, memories, which in times to come, give us those bouts of nostalgia&#8230;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">they say, as we grow older, we tend to go back to our roots, perhaps, a few years down the line, we&#8217;ll see a generation going back to a prehistoric site called orkut to relive their glorious past \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><br \/>until next time, take a trip down memory lane&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suddenly realised that long before google came on the scene, we were used to the concept of context&#8230; a few days back, i had sent our recent goa photos to an old schoolmate, and instead of sending me a reply, the damn fellow decided to leave a scrap in my orkut account.. and so, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2007\/05\/17\/and-while-on-context\/\">[&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":[412,7],"tags":[609,2097,195,381],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-yesterday","tag-contextual-friends","tag-friendship","tag-orkut","tag-relationships"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15271,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/15271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}