{"id":651,"date":"2006-06-03T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/death-of-a-statue\/"},"modified":"2006-06-03T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T15:50:00","slug":"death-of-a-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/death-of-a-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a statue in the middle of the road in front of my office. It was that of the first Chief Minister in Andhra Pradesh, I believe, and it is being dismantled. There is a new flyover under construction, and the authorities decided to do away with it. I wonder what is going to happen to the statue &#8211; will it be put up again somewhere? Will they melt it down? Do statues undergo reincarnation? Why am I reminded of Oscar Wilde&#8217;s <i>The Happy Prince<\/i> as I see it being brought down? <\/p>\n<p><!--more A picture.--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/beatzo\/159198902\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/59\/159198902_01ed2a8f12_o.gif\" width=\"993\" height=\"766\" alt=\"the_statue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This photo was For the Hyderabad-nostalgia-inclined folks on LJ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a statue in the middle of the road in front of my office. It was that of the first Chief Minister in Andhra Pradesh, I believe, and it is being dismantled. There is a new flyover under construction, and the authorities decided to do away with it. I wonder what is [&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-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}