{"id":1442,"date":"2005-04-29T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1442"},"modified":"2005-05-02T21:53:37","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T02:53:37","slug":"suketu_on_load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/suketu_on_load\/","title":{"rendered":"Suketu on load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Suketu Mehta wrote <A href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/full_story.php?content_id=29742\">this sensuous take<\/A> on the Great Northeast Power Outage (via <A href=\"http:\/\/greenchannel.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/brooklyn-brooklyn_111294817115089577.html\">Green Channel<\/A>):<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<P style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">As it got dark, the texture of the city changed. The street lights were out, and people strolled about with flashlights, lanterns. Street vendors were selling glow-sticks and phosphorescent necklaces which would save you from being run over at intersections&#8230; It was a steamy night; men walked around without their shirts; women came out in their shortest skirts. People trying to catch the trains to the suburbs realised they couldn&#8217;t make it, met other commuters, and made impromptu dinner plans with them; ate pizza by candlelight and slept together in the parks&#8230; For one night, the city shed its load.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suketu Mehta wrote this sensuous take on the Great Northeast Power Outage (via Green Channel): As it got dark, the texture of the city changed. The street lights were out, and people strolled about with flashlights, lanterns. Street vendors were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/suketu_on_load\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}