{"id":523,"date":"2016-02-15T13:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/?p=523"},"modified":"2016-02-15T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T08:03:29","slug":"say-hello-to-dr-venkatesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/say-hello-to-dr-venkatesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello To Dr Venkatesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though he appears in a cameo in the book, Dr. Venkatesh is one of my favourite characters from Ranga Half-Pants.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Venkatesh was a very task-oriented, disciplined man. Given he had one foot in medicine and the other in farming, there was a synesthetic overlap when he performed his duties as a doctor. When he administered injections, he cajoled wailing children just like he managed his cattle: by chanting, in his trademark baritone, \u201cHo Ho Ho. Trrr Trrr!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though he appears in a cameo in the book, Dr. Venkatesh is one of my favourite characters from Ranga Half-Pants. Dr. Venkatesh was a very task-oriented, disciplined man. Given he <a href=\"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/say-hello-to-dr-venkatesh\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484,"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":[43,1,8,4],"tags":[53,54],"class_list":["entry","author-sumank","post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chittoor","category-general","category-people","category-book","tag-characters","tag-doctor-venkatesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dichhaa.jpg?fit=659%2C441","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5v1Ni-8r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/ranga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}