{"id":91,"date":"2004-07-07T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=91"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:47:23","slug":"whack-not-white-not-black-and-definitely-not-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/07\/07\/whack-not-white-not-black-and-definitely-not-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Whack &#8211; not white, not black and definitely not grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post stems from a lot of questions that i find asking myself&#8230; these questions, among many other things have made me realise that right and wrong are most usually a matter of perspective&#8230;.not just ours, but a whole lot of others&#8217;&#8230;and sometimes it just cant be as simple as me deciding whats right and whats wrong&#8230;.about my decisions as well as others&#8217;&#8230; too often i catch myself getting judgemental&#8230; which , in retrospect, doesnt seem fair..this is perhaps a way of reminding myself&#8230; so, here are some whacks!!<br \/>\n&#8211; the guy crossing the road in a hurry to get to office\/home and the guy speeding down the road in a hurry to get to office\/home (this is india, so zebra crossings..well, u decide)<br \/>\n&#8211; the organisation cutting the internet to unclog bandwidth and the individual who checks his personal mail in office<br \/>\n&#8211; the young parents who are conscious of their careers and the child who doesnt get enough attention because the parents focus on their careers<br \/>\n&#8211; the bribes we pay so that our work gets done faster and the voices against corruption<br \/>\n&#8211; the parents who want to have a say in who their child marries and the child who wants a say about his \/ her life<br \/>\n&#8211; downloading music from &#8216;pirate&#8217; sites and voices against music piracy<br \/>\n&#8211; shouting at a waiter coz he spilt something on you and the waiter who&#8217;s only human and can make mistakes<br \/>\n&#8211; children who cant make enough time for their parents and parents who crave attention from their kids in their last days<br \/>\n&#8211; hanging the guy who rapes and kills women and the guy, who genuinely repents<br \/>\n&#8211; you, who come here to read a good post, and me, who cant think of anything good to write&#8230;;)<br \/>\nwe all have our takes in all this, but are we right or are we wrong??<br \/>\nmeanwhile in<br \/>\nmanuscrypts trivia<br \/>\nSeen during a conference: FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN&#8217;T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR<br \/>\nMessage on a leaflet:  IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET LESSONS<br \/>\naur ek rashtr bhasha main,<br \/>\nEk kavi shaadi ke baad biwi se bola: Aaj se tum hi meri kavita ho, prerna ho, bhawana ho, Kalpna ho!<br \/>\nPatni: Mere liye bhi aaj se aap hi dinesh ho, rohit ho, rakesh ho!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post stems from a lot of questions that i find asking myself&#8230; these questions, among many other things have made me realise that right and wrong are most usually a matter of perspective&#8230;.not just ours, but a whole lot of others&#8217;&#8230;and sometimes it just cant be as simple as me deciding whats right and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/07\/07\/whack-not-white-not-black-and-definitely-not-grey\/\">[&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":[6052,1479,412],"tags":[383,2354],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choices","category-thoughtstream","category-life","tag-decisions","tag-judging"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15176,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/15176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}