{"id":411,"date":"2007-10-10T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T02:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/10\/10\/on-commentary\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T02:26:57","slug":"on-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/on-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"On Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m busy these days making November&#8217;s Open Quiz, writing an article for Pragati, house-hunting, putting scissors, and yes, working. So I don&#8217;t have the time to write serious, funda-based posts. What you get instead is me mocking young Shivam Vij.<\/p>\n<p>Young Shivam Vij has started a series of posts called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shivamvij.com\/2007\/10\/self-fashioning.html\">Self Fashioning<\/a>&#8216; where he copy-pastes what people have written about themselves without offering any commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Given that when he <em>does<\/em> comment, he says things like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shivamvij.com\/2007\/10\/climate.html\">To speak what few dare to, to continuously be the madman in the accidents deaths of anarchists &#8211; that\u2019s why I so religiously follow Arundhati Roy\u2019s polemics<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the lack of commentary is probably for the best.<\/p>\n<p>And he follows her polemics religiously? But wait! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2006\/03\/15\/the-ten-commandments-of-poverty\/#comment-458\">Wasn&#8217;t he an atheist<\/a>? Oh, I get it now. It&#8217;s a metaphor only when he uses it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m busy these days making November&#8217;s Open Quiz, writing an article for Pragati, house-hunting, putting scissors, and yes, working. So I don&#8217;t have the time to write serious, funda-based posts. What you get instead is me mocking young Shivam Vij. Young Shivam Vij has started a series of posts called &#8216;Self Fashioning&#8216; where he copy-pastes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-charlatans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-6D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}