{"id":393,"date":"2007-08-16T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=393"},"modified":"2021-01-09T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T07:17:08","slug":"oh-the-irony-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2007\/08\/16\/oh-the-irony-of-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the irony of it all&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Once upon a time, the biggest significance of Aug 15th was that it was a holiday. And Gandhi and Roja have given way to Lage Raho Munnabhai and Rang De Basanti..<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Makes me wonder, the relevance of this day has become worse than it being just a holiday. And the irony? To make a free country, they burned foreign cloth. In a free country, we burn money to buy international brands that give special discounts on I-Day&#8230; No, this is not  tirade against MNCs (hey, i use them too) but maybe, we should make this a normal day and stop mocking the efforts of a generation long gone?<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">until next time, born free, perhaps thats the root..<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, the biggest significance of Aug 15th was that it was a holiday. And Gandhi and Roja have given way to Lage Raho Munnabhai and Rang De Basanti.. Makes me wonder, the relevance of this day has become worse than it being just a holiday. And the irony? To make a free <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2007\/08\/16\/oh-the-irony-of-it-all\/\">[&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":[6,412,6181],"tags":[6075],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-life","category-social-commentary","tag-independence-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15286,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/15286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}