{"id":3434,"date":"2019-04-03T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T03:57:38","slug":"summer-vacation-and-grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/summer-vacation-and-grandma\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer vacation &#038; Grandma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is the time of year again when I start missing my Dadi(grandma). I see kids on the street playing gully cricket, shouting, laughing and crying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My summer vacation was a different story altogether,  my village is a few kilometers from where I lived with my parents. Papa will drop us to our village and then all the fun will begin. Spending 60 days with my Dadi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her day will start with playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nYvJs7PSyAo\">All India Radio, ram charit manas path<\/a>. That would be my alarm yeps. By the time I am up she would be done with her daily chores and breakfast with tea will be served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, I will be on my own: roaming to the fields with my cousins, taking bath in boarding pumps watering paddy fields to stealing mangoes and lychees from the orchids and sometimes getting cursed by maalis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was living a life like a king on my own rules and getting pampered by dadi. She will make the best parathas (my mom agrees) with fired Aloo (potato). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have not met anyone so active in her 60&#8217;s, she was always up for challenges and explorations. I would demand something and It will be presented.  We had no electricity, it was an era of lantern\/kerosene lamps.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is no more, passed away many years back. I was 9\/10 years old then. I will update this post with more remembrance.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time of year again when I start missing my Dadi(grandma). I see kids on the street playing gully cricket, shouting, laughing and crying. My summer vacation was a different story altogether, my village is a few kilometers from where I lived with my parents. Papa will drop us to our village and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/summer-vacation-and-grandma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer vacation &#038; Grandma&#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":[579,580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434"}],"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=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}