{"id":2797,"date":"2018-02-10T02:46:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2018-02-10T02:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:16:23","slug":"random-thoughts-living-in-a-matchbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/10\/random-thoughts-living-in-a-matchbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: Living in a Matchbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2798\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0994.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0994-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0994-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0994-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0994-900x900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0994-260x260.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matchbox:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are son of a servant, you have to end up doing same like your father.<\/li>\n<li>We bought you for few $$ and you will end up working in our sugarcane, corn fields.<\/li>\n<li>I want my son to be a cricketer more famous then myself.<\/li>\n<li>Since this was never tried it before, you better not think about it.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking against them will get you killed, this is stupid not nationalism.<\/li>\n<li>Sons and Daughters in our family get married in 20&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t take arts, there is no future in it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mentality forced upon us with external conditions and forces makes us go do things as intended. In other words, live a life and die inside it with this boundary created by some ruler, family member, religion ETC.<\/p>\n<p>Those religious texts, those rules of lives or those traditions forced on us are coming from people of yesterday&#8217;s who wanted comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Modern World:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone has to study to be successful<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has to compete<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has to settle down<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has to run after check list<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has to end up being a ROBOT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matchbox: &nbsp; You are son of a servant, you have to end up doing same like your father. We bought you for few $$ and you will end up working in our sugarcane, corn fields. I want my son to be a cricketer more famous then myself. Since this was never tried it before, you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/10\/random-thoughts-living-in-a-matchbox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Thoughts: Living in a Matchbox&#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":[3],"tags":[388,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797"}],"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=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}