{"id":5366,"date":"2021-03-03T07:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2021-03-03T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T02:22:19","slug":"treadmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/03\/treadmill\/","title":{"rendered":"treadmill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are running on a treadmill. A lot of this blame goes to our parents and society. The level of expectations put on young shoulders by Indian parents is undoubtedly beyond the limits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a checklist made as we age. This system makes life miserable for women, a constant nudge of getting married and getting settled. Even the most educated and feminists cannot escape it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been awkward conversations like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&nbsp;You are going to die with your pets.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Get married you are crossing 29th year, having a baby will be difficult.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My question is simple, why do Indian parents have such controlling urges? Why can&#8217;t they let their kids live their life? Are women just baby-making machines?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are running on a treadmill. A lot of this blame goes to our parents and society. The level of expectations put on young shoulders by Indian parents is undoubtedly beyond the limits.&nbsp; There is a checklist made as we age. This system makes life miserable for women, a constant nudge of getting married and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/03\/treadmill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;treadmill&#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":[1094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366"}],"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=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}