{"id":76,"date":"2009-08-21T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/08\/becoming-indian.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:33:04","slug":"becoming-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/08\/becoming-indian.html","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/article.aspx?261314\">this<\/a> article from outlook. It is by Justin McCarthy, who unlike the rest of the aam junta went from being American to being Indian. He has apparently found his bliss in India. He writes :<\/p>\n<p><em>To this day, still face bewildered, incredulous, wry, bemused, aghast looks at immigration points both local and foreign. Once had Richard Gere queuing behind me at Delhi airport, an official with him imperiously shouting, \u201cVIP! VIP!\u201d Officer attending me looks up, \u201cHmmph! Vee I P, Shee I P! Chhodo, yaar. Inko dekho!\u201d<br \/><\/em><br \/>LOL.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-9186943198204372569?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this article from outlook. It is by Justin McCarthy, who unlike the rest of the aam junta went from being American to being Indian. He has apparently found his bliss in India. He writes : To this day, still face bewildered, incredulous, wry, bemused, aghast looks at immigration points both local and foreign. Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desi","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Reading this article from outlook. It is by Justin McCarthy, who unlike the rest of the aam junta went from being American to being Indian. He has apparently found his bliss in India. He writes : To this day, still face bewildered, incredulous, wry, bemused, aghast looks at immigration points both local and foreign. Once&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}