{"id":3446,"date":"2018-07-22T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2018-07-22T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T05:26:12","slug":"huggers-and-thuggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/huggers-and-thuggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Huggers and Thuggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-86.png\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Huggers and Thuggers\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 86\">the 86th installment<\/a> of <a href=\"\/category\/rhyme-and-reason\/\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason -- Amit Varma\">Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/epaper.timesgroup.com\/Olive\/ODN\/TimesOfIndia\/#\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>HUGGERS<\/p>\n<p>In the last elections, Modi won.<br \/>\nSince that time, he has hugged everyone.<br \/>\nBut now the tables turn.<br \/>\nModiji feels the burn.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s now RaGa who is having fun.<\/p>\n<p>THUGGERS<\/p>\n<p>Putin was in the gym doing weights.<br \/>\nI asked him, &#8220;How do you like your mates?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;They must obey.<br \/>\nI like men made of clay,<br \/>\nLike my lad in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-86.png\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 86\">the 86th installment<\/a> of <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/categories\/category\/rhyme-and-reason\/\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason -- Amit Varma\">Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/epaper.timesgroup.com\/Olive\/ODN\/TimesOfIndia\/#\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>HUGGERS<\/p>\n<p>In the last elections, Modi won.<br \/>\nSince that time, he has hugged everyone.<br \/>\nBut now the tables turn.<br \/>\nModiji feels the burn.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s now RaGa who is having fun.<\/p>\n<p>THUGGERS<\/p>\n<p>Putin was in the gym doing weights.<br \/>\nI asked him, &#8220;How do you like your mates?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;They must obey.<br \/>\nI like men made of clay,<br \/>\nLike my lad in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Huggers and Thuggers - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/huggers-and-thuggers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Huggers and Thuggers - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 86th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. 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