{"id":299,"date":"2007-04-11T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/04\/11\/it-could-be-so-much-worse\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T17:06:00","slug":"it-could-be-so-much-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/it-could-be-so-much-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"It Could Be So Much Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desipundit.com\">Desipundit<\/a> is criticised for linking to blogposts of dubious quality. And rightly so. But even they never sink to the levels of <a href=\"http:\/\/tomorrow.sg\">Tomorrow.Sg<\/a>, and link to <a href=\"http:\/\/eugenemon.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/10\/top-10-toilets-in-singapore\/\">The Ten Best Toilets in Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\">King<\/a> is so much preferable to <a href=\"http:\/\/xiaxue.blogspot.com\">Singapore&#8217;s Number One Blogger<\/a>. Sample this conversation I had last night about Xiaxue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/azatlan.blogspot.com\">Kunal<\/a>: pink background, variable font sizes, aaaaaargh!!!!<br \/>\nis this creature some manner of celebrity? i notice she mentions 30k readers<br \/>\nAadisht: She is Singapore&#8217;s number one blogger<br \/>\nLike Kiruba<br \/>\nbut more pink<br \/>\nKunal: surely singapore is not that far gone?<br \/>\nlook at the bloody snowflakes coming out of her head!<br \/>\nAadisht: You are unaware of the true horrors of Singapore<br \/>\nThe Straits Times is 64 pages long<br \/>\nand like Bombay Times<br \/>\nImagine 64 pages of supplement as the main paper<br \/>\nKunal: thats just terrrible!<br \/>\nthis is the price of chewing gum-free streets<br \/>\nAadisht: They are no longer gum free even. The ban is lifted.<br \/>\nKunal: so its all for nothing?<br \/>\nAadisht: Well it could be the price of the food<br \/>\nKunal: the mushing of brains without the safety of goo-free table undersides?<\/p>\n<p>Truly, we are fortunate to live in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desipundit is criticised for linking to blogposts of dubious quality. And rightly so. But even they never sink to the levels of Tomorrow.Sg, and link to The Ten Best Toilets in Singapore. And the King is so much preferable to Singapore&#8217;s Number One Blogger. Sample this conversation I had last night about Xiaxue. Kunal: pink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-gtalk-profundity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-4P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}