{"id":806,"date":"2009-04-05T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=806"},"modified":"2011-04-04T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:26:51","slug":"love-and-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Love and Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard and read a few times now (from tourists, of course) that one must either love or hate India. I&#8217;m not a friend of such black-and-white views, but if I had to decide I&#8217;d say: I love India.<\/p>\n<p>The people here are beautifully friendly, interested, smiling, chatty, and so much more. I&#8217;d stay longer if I could.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there cannot be love without hate, which is why black &amp; white doesn&#8217;t work anyway. Poverty is one of the deficiencies in India, and it is hard to believe the contrasts that are visible everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago I met a man, Daniel, on the highway who works with an organization that helps underprivilegded children in the Surat and Bharuch area. We&#8217;ve exchanged a few emails since then and maybe, if the Rann doesn&#8217;t take all the time I have left in India, I can meet him again and learn more about his work.<\/p>\n<p>In other news: It rained today. I just hope the salt will stay dry (enough).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard and read a few times now (from tourists, of course) that one must either love or hate India. I&#8217;m not a friend of such black-and-white views, but if I had to decide I&#8217;d say: I love India. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-indian-ocean","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}