{"id":39,"date":"2003-07-31T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:00:52","slug":"its-all-about-money-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/07\/31\/its-all-about-money-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Its all about money, honey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">That was borrowed from the tagline of indiainfoline.com, i dont see it much these days, wonder if they still use it&#8230;but that also is what i am going to write on today&#8230;i am reading &#8216;india unbound&#8217; by gurcharan das(see my medialist), almost finished it&#8230;and i am able to relate yesterday&#8217;s post to some of the stuff in the book&#8230;so, will continue on the path&#8230;.but i believe, i will be backtracking by the time i finish the entire series..today&#8217;s generation, as compared to the ones earlier, gets a lot of money related happiness, mostly because of rising consumerism, which has almost enveloped the more developed countries and is rapidly aadvancing in india&#8230;we like to have things literally at our fingertips, and the mouse is a powerful tool.. we order books, gifts and many other things under the sun online, it definitely is convenient&#8230;.the mobile is also a powerful tool, most of the restaurants here, have introduced home delivery, again the fingertips can get the job done&#8230;.result of all this is a decrease in the kind of social interaction we grew up with&#8230;and whether it is online purchases or home delivery, there is definitely an extra price we pay for it&#8230;&#8230;the BPOs (call centers, in regular parlance) that are spreading like a virus, not necessarily with the same dire consequences, hehe, they are either making calls or receiving calls,giving customers from far flung corners of the globe, info about a variety of products and services&#8230;.so we have convenience, better economies coz these call center employees make good money, so more disposable income&#8230;.but are we losing ourselves in the turn of the merry go round, why do we have waves of nostalgia? why do we turn to our blogs as outlets? a query, can our generation produce a bhagat singh or an aung san suu kyi, who would endure purely for what they believe in &#8230;..we have, but in a different mould, more on that tomorrow&#8230;. leaving you with<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">manuscrypts trivia<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">&#8216;If somebody gives you a free ticket for a tour, you cannot fight with the person because of the troubles you meet while on the journey.&#8217;&#8230;.leena chandavarkar, on life<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was borrowed from the tagline of indiainfoline.com, i dont see it much these days, wonder if they still use it&#8230;but that also is what i am going to write on today&#8230;i am reading &#8216;india unbound&#8217; by gurcharan das(see my medialist), almost finished it&#8230;and i am able to relate yesterday&#8217;s post to some of the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/07\/31\/its-all-about-money-honey\/\">[&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":[1479,6056],"tags":[5958,4881,6071,402],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-society-culture","tag-consumerism","tag-gurcharan-das","tag-india-unbound","tag-money"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15140,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}