{"id":4383,"date":"2007-04-29T01:24:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T06:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4383"},"modified":"2007-04-29T19:39:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T00:39:01","slug":"allergic_to_hyp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/allergic_to_hyp\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergic to Hypocrisy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/radaknet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"radaknet.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/radaknet-thumb.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>A tip about this photograph was posted on our News tab a few hours ago by &#8220;namantra&#8221; under the title <em>Dehli ad on Metro<\/em>.  It was their description of the link which interested me:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The same country that often frowns down upon public displays of affection has billboards that openly use curse words.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I must say, I was slightly surprised to see one of my favorite blue words gettin&#8217; dropped so blatantly, but I know nothing about advertising in the Motherland.  Does this ad signal a coarsening of Indian culture?  Or did it not raise the threaded eyebrows of those of you who are familiar with such things?  And are we comparing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/suitablegirl\/15287811\/\">jack fruit<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004262.html\">ambarellas<\/a>; does one have nothing to do with the other?\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip about this photograph was posted on our News tab a few hours ago by &#8220;namantra&#8221; under the title Dehli ad on Metro. It was their description of the link which interested me: The same country that often frowns &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/allergic_to_hyp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}