{"id":1585,"date":"2017-07-19T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2017-07-19T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:16:49","slug":"stop-honking-car-pooling-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/stop-honking-car-pooling-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Honking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Kitna Horn Marta Hai yaar<\/em>&#8221; proclaimed Ripunjay in his half asleep posture. It got me thinking. He was right. I have been honking sometimes unnecessarily because I could see the threat ahead. It could be the Auto <em>Wala<\/em> who would be in the mood to suddenly cut the lane or the trying-to-be-classy but an ass trying to just get ahead of you. While I introspected I realised it just got me agitated and the world around me gave two hoots about it. While I know this was not me, I was wondering who is this version of me?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1587\" src=\"http:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170719_081843-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI decided that I will not Honk no matter what happens. I took it as a challenge (because I love challenges) I wanted to test myself and kick out the guy in me who loved honking.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the second day when I have not honked even once.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nothing changes when you Honk. The world remains the same and so are the asses.<\/li>\n<li>You tend to drive more calmly and become less competitive.<\/li>\n<li>You start smiling more and start enjoying the amazing music more.<\/li>\n<li>Ripunjay could sleep more peacefully \u00a0(Ciaz + no honking) &#8216;<\/li>\n<li>The ride is more comfortable because you tend to brake less.<strong>Try it today. Stop Honking.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kitna Horn Marta Hai yaar&#8221; proclaimed Ripunjay in his half asleep posture. It got me thinking. He was right. I have been honking sometimes unnecessarily because I could see the threat ahead. It could be the Auto Wala who would be in the mood to suddenly cut the lane or the trying-to-be-classy but an ass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100happydays","category-day-to-day-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}