{"id":303,"date":"2004-08-30T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=303"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"great_indian_ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/great_indian_ex\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Great Indian Excuses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vicious OpEd in Rediff &#8211;<a title=\"The Great Indian Excuses resurface\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rediff.com\/sports\/2004\/aug\/30oly-ind.htm\">The Great Indian Excuses resurface.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>If Anjali Bhagwat had stiff muscles, K M Binu ran with the wrong spikes, Karnam Malleswari suffered a last-minute back problem, and Suma Shirur was done in by a mental block!\n<p>\nThe exceptions were heptathlete J J Shobha, who braved excruciating pain to finish the event in eleventh place, and tennis stars Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes.\n<p>\nThere seems to be no end to the excuses given by Indian athletes for their shoddy performances at yet another Olympiad that ended last night in Athens.\n<p>\nWhether these were genuine reasons for their failure, only the athletes can tell. But one thing is for sure. They have got readymade excuses for every failure and it appears to come to them naturally.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicious OpEd in Rediff &#8211;The Great Indian Excuses resurface. If Anjali Bhagwat had stiff muscles, K M Binu ran with the wrong spikes, Karnam Malleswari suffered a last-minute back problem, and Suma Shirur was done in by a mental block! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/great_indian_ex\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}