{"id":3502,"date":"2017-09-10T05:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T00:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2017-09-10T05:37:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T00:07:19","slug":"death-of-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/death-of-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-49.png\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Death of a Writer\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 49\">the 49th 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:\/\/epaperbeta.timesofindia.com\/NasData\/\/PUBLICATIONS\/THETIMESOFINDIA\/AHMEDABAD\/2017\/09\/10\/PagePrint\/10_09_2017_012_cfb23b709bd1f9f2d2be11ca6d3733c2.pdf\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>THE KILLERS<\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between ISIS<br \/>\nAnd home-grown terrorists? It is this:<br \/>\nISIS takes full credit<br \/>\nFor the crimes they commit.<br \/>\nOur boys are cowards in the abyss.<\/p>\n<p>IMMORTAL<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy to kill a writer.<br \/>\nGet dry wood, fuel, cigarette lighter.<br \/>\nFlick a switch, set a fire.<br \/>\nShe will merely perspire.<br \/>\nWords live forever, you can&#8217;t fight her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-49.png\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 49\">the 49th 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:\/\/epaperbeta.timesofindia.com\/NasData\/\/PUBLICATIONS\/THETIMESOFINDIA\/AHMEDABAD\/2017\/09\/10\/PagePrint\/10_09_2017_012_cfb23b709bd1f9f2d2be11ca6d3733c2.pdf\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>THE KILLERS<\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between ISIS<br \/>\nAnd home-grown terrorists? It is this:<br \/>\nISIS takes full credit<br \/>\nFor the crimes they commit.<br \/>\nOur boys are cowards in the abyss.<\/p>\n<p>IMMORTAL<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy to kill a writer.<br \/>\nGet dry wood, fuel, cigarette lighter.<br \/>\nFlick a switch, set a fire.<br \/>\nShe will merely perspire.<br \/>\nWords live forever, you can&#8217;t fight her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,7,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Death of a Writer - 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\/death-of-a-writer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Death of a Writer - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 49th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. 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