{"id":3455,"date":"2018-05-27T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2018-05-27T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:21:31","slug":"modijis-fitness-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/modijis-fitness-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Modiji\u2019s Fitness Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the 81st installment<\/a> of Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

FITNESS CHALLENGE<\/p>\n

Modiji said, as he tried to squat,
\n“This is so much harder than I thought.
\nLet us do Photoshop.
\nI will seem so tip-top.
\nOptics matters. Performance does not.”<\/p>\n

EAVESDROPPING<\/p>\n

The other day, my toaster complained,
\n“In the kitchen, I feel so constrained.
\nAll I hear is your gloom.
\nShift me to the bedroom
\nAt least then I can be entertained.”<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

And a bonus limerick that I unleashed on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY<\/p>\n

I woke up excited last Sunday.
\nMy guru said it was a fun day.
\nBut the day was such crap,
\nAll of it on Whatsapp.
\nI will quit this addiction one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the 81st installment<\/a> of Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

FITNESS CHALLENGE<\/p>\n

Modiji said, as he tried to squat,
\n“This is so much harder than I thought.
\nLet us do Photoshop.
\nI will seem so tip-top.
\nOptics matters. Performance does not.”<\/p>\n

EAVESDROPPING<\/p>\n

The other day, my toaster complained,
\n“In the kitchen, I feel so constrained.
\nAll I hear is your gloom.
\nShift me to the bedroom
\nAt least then I can be entertained.”<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

And a bonus limerick that I unleashed on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY<\/p>\n

I woke up excited last Sunday.
\nMy guru said it was a fun day.
\nBut the day was such crap,
\nAll of it on Whatsapp.
\nI will quit this addiction one day.<\/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":"\nModiji\u2019s Fitness Challenge - 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\/modijis-fitness-challenge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Modiji\u2019s Fitness Challenge - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 81st installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. FITNESS CHALLENGE Modiji said, as he tried to squat, “This is so much harder than I thought. Let us do Photoshop. 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