{"id":977,"date":"2010-05-14T12:13:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T06:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/?p=977"},"modified":"2010-05-14T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T06:43:59","slug":"a-much-delayed-important-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/a-much-delayed-important-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Much Delayed Important Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am now a columnist for Yahoo! India. My brief is to be a humour columnist, so I will try hard to be funny. The column will appear on alternate Saturdays. The <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/265\/20100501\/1705\/top-the-weaver-the-princess-and-goldman_1.html\">first column is here<\/a>, and the next one will be out tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>Points to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So far, I am a failure as a columnist. Almost all the other columnists in the spectacular lineup have been getting hate mail\/ hate comments. I have got nothing <em>despite<\/em> being a humour columnist. I must be doing something wrong.<\/li>\n<li>I am not going to link every column from the blog. The columns have their own RSS feed. Also, Yahoo! apparently is also working on a spiffier website with an easy to remember address for the India columnists.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t comment on the column page itself, but there&#8217;s a link between the headline and the main text to the Yahoo Buzz discussion, where you can leave comments. I may respond to comments over there &#8211; my Yahoo! display id is double a.<\/li>\n<li>You can send me email about the column to the stereotypist@wokay.in id mentioned in my bioline.<\/li>\n<li>The first few columns will probably be very different stylistically, until I figure out what works best. But I&#8217;m hoping to bring back a character I created when I first started writing on the internet.<\/li>\n<li> The Year in Preview posts will stay on this blog. Yahoo doesn&#8217;t get those.<\/li>\n<li>I get paid for doing this! I am now officially a little bit hippie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now a columnist for Yahoo! India. My brief is to be a humour columnist, so I will try hard to be funny. The column will appear on alternate Saturdays. The first column is here, and the next one will be out tomorrow morning. Points to note: So far, I am a failure as [&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":[27,30],"tags":[2009],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-plugging","tag-shameless-self-promotion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-fL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}