{"id":331,"date":"2016-01-12T16:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/?p=331"},"modified":"2016-01-16T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T08:45:51","slug":"say-hello-to-turtle-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/say-hello-to-turtle-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello To Turtle Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of a series of posts where I try and get you acquainted with Chittoor, the town where Ranga Half-pants is set in. I only borrowed settings from the town. I took the creative liberty of changing names of places. Only a few characters from Ranga Half-Pants are inspired by people I know. The character Gaja is based on one of my best friends Umapathy from Greamspet. Other than that most of the characters are fictitious. <\/p>\n<p>I digress. Here, say hello to one of my favourite places in all of Chittoor. Thaabelu Konda (Turtle Hill.) My friends and I have spent innumerable holidays in and around these hills.<br \/>\nWhen in high school, we used to trek to the top of the &#8216;neck&#8217; of the Turtle at least thrice a week. We did find some wildlife there; Monitor Lizards, Rabbits and a variety of snakes. No, not on the top but in and around the hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of a series of posts where I try and get you acquainted with Chittoor, the town where Ranga Half-pants is set in. I only borrowed settings <a href=\"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/say-hello-to-turtle-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[49,50,51],"class_list":["entry","author-sumank","post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chittoor","category-general","tag-chittoor","tag-novel","tag-setting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/turtleneck.jpg?fit=500%2C375","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5v1Ni-5l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}