{"id":624,"date":"2006-03-04T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/the-rain-in-spain-falls-mostly-on-the-plains\/"},"modified":"2006-03-04T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T10:43:00","slug":"the-rain-in-spain-falls-mostly-on-the-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/the-rain-in-spain-falls-mostly-on-the-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"The rain in Spain falls mostly on the plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But in Hyderabad, it falls everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>It rained last night. It had been overcast since the evening, and by 8 PM, it was windy enough for us to switch off our fans and stand on the balcony. I was pretty sure it wouldn&#8217;t rain, because it&#8217;s March and whoever&#8217;s heard of rains in Hyderabad in March?<\/p>\n<p>It began to pour at around 9:30, and the power went off just then, putting paid to my plans of finishing Total Overdose ( the Mithun-da version of GTA: Vice City ) last night. I was also glad I hadn&#8217;t gone to RTC Crossroads, where there&#8217;s a new book-sale going on. I shut the window that opens to my book crates, opened the one near the bean-bags, put on some Antonio Carlos Joabim on the discman, and sat near the window. The spray of raindrops, the smell of soaked earth and the sounds of Joabim&#8217;s <i>Girl from Ipanema<\/i> put me to sleep. I woke up when the power came on &#8211; you know that feeling, when you wake up and you can see everything around you, but you <i>cannot<\/i> get up, no matter how much you try? &#8211; that&#8217;s what happened to me. I woke up again at 3:45 AM, the rain was still pouring down, switched off the lights, and went back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The sun&#8217;s back now, and the only way you can figure out that it rained at night is the puddles on the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in Hyderabad, it falls everywhere. It rained last night. It had been overcast since the evening, and by 8 PM, it was windy enough for us to switch off our fans and stand on the balcony. I was pretty sure it wouldn&#8217;t rain, because it&#8217;s March and whoever&#8217;s heard of rains in Hyderabad in [&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-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}