{"id":233,"date":"2003-01-19T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-19T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/01\/this-is-funny\/"},"modified":"2003-01-19T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-19T20:36:00","slug":"this-is-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/01\/this-is-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"this is funny&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am at the Bus Station at Bangalore waiting for the bus that takes me back to Hyd.<\/p>\n<p>The quizzes were good! Believe it or not, we (note the emphasis on &#8220;we&#8221;) cracked the Sports Quiz at IIMB&#8230;winning by a TREMENDOUS margin. The Ent quiz should have been a walkover&#8230;Unfortunately, Moody beat us by 1.3 points, and that after we had a 9 point lead in the first part&#8230;.but then, that&#8217;s quizzing for you.<\/p>\n<p>Today was craapy&#8230;sort of. Made it to the finals of the General quiz, unfortunately the finals had the Heavyweights around&#8230;.people with balding pates and beer bellies ( I hate to sound unkind, but haven&#8217;t people heard of something called &#8220;graceful degradation&#8221;??), and of course, they trounced us. NO cribs though, I passed my quota of Inspiring Guesses of The Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The kick at the end of it all was getting Wrangler vouchers at the end of it&#8230;I mean, ok, I know cash is scarce nowadays, but the least they could have done was NOT to advertise the prizes as cash! I am really starting to have second thoughts about going to Saarang&#8230;the KLPD might get too extreme.<\/p>\n<p>The optimistic side&#8230;this is one weekend which went by without my spending more than 500 bucks! I don&#8217;t believe this, but I managed to get this trip done under 500 Rupees!! There <i>is<\/i> a God! <\/p>\n<p>Absolutely no music for the past 8 hours&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The bus is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am at the Bus Station at Bangalore waiting for the bus that takes me back to Hyd. The quizzes were good! Believe it or not, we (note the emphasis on &#8220;we&#8221;) cracked the Sports Quiz at IIMB&#8230;winning by a TREMENDOUS margin. The Ent quiz should have been a walkover&#8230;Unfortunately, Moody beat us by 1.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}