{"id":2231,"date":"2017-03-05T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2017-03-05T00:01:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:31:24","slug":"random-thoughts-life-or-auto-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/05\/random-thoughts-life-or-auto-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: Life or Auto Pilot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2232\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/life.jpg\" alt=\"life\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/life.jpg 700w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/life-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a middle class Indian family has its own set of limitations.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Your family decides name for you.<\/li>\n<li>Society decides \u00a0your religion\/caste.<\/li>\n<li>Your parents decide what you have to pursue in your career.<\/li>\n<li>Mom decides who you should marry &amp; when you should have kids.<\/li>\n<li>The peer pressure on us drives us towards buying house, car or owning credit card.<\/li>\n<li>Friends decides where we have to go get drunk &amp; screw our body\/health\/mind.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the end, what are we doing? Living a life or sailing on auto pilot mode?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in a middle class Indian family has its own set of limitations. Your family decides name for you. Society decides \u00a0your religion\/caste. Your parents decide what you have to pursue in your career. Mom decides who you should marry &amp; when you should have kids. The peer pressure on us drives us towards &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/05\/random-thoughts-life-or-auto-pilot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Thoughts: Life or Auto Pilot?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}