{"id":143,"date":"2003-06-01T21:52:04","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/01\/i-had-a-dream\/"},"modified":"2003-06-01T21:52:04","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T16:22:04","slug":"i-had-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2003\/06\/i-had-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"I Had a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like every child, I used to dream of riding a motorcycle. When I had added some years to my life, and had a chance to review what&#8217;s out there, I decided that one day I would own a Bullet. (For those of you who don&#8217;t know what that is, I am talking about a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.royalenfield.com\">Royal Enfield<\/a> 350 cc &#8211; a vehicle that has stayed pretty much unchanged in design since the mid-50&#8217;s.) Of course, economic circumstances at the time dictated that that particular dream of mine (like so many others) would need to wait a while. So I bought myself a commuter-friendly and environment-friendly bike instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t give up on the dream. I used to admire the Bullets I passed by on the road, and look at them longingly at the traffic stops (for as long as the signal permitted). I envied those who owned one, and felt a little bad about those would never know what they are missing. I even joined some online clubs to take in the feel of talking, breathing and living Bullets !<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t envy Bullet-owners any more. <strong>Because I just bought one myself !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it fantastic when your childhood dreams come true?! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like every child, I used to dream of riding a motorcycle. When I had added some years to my life, and had a chance to review what&#8217;s out there, I decided that one day I would own a Bullet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}