{"id":3573,"date":"2016-11-06T05:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2016-11-06T05:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T01:20:45","slug":"the-true-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-true-patriot\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-21.png\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"The True Patriot\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 21\">the 21st 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\/MUMBAI\/2016\/11\/06\/PagePrint\/06_11_2016_022_8aa79265fc8019a6bbeb6c420589290e.pdf\" title=\"Sunday ToI edit page November 8 -- PDF LINK\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>DISSENT<\/p>\n<p>The greatest danger to any land<br \/>\nIs a government that goes out of hand.<br \/>\nA true patriot&#8217;s task<br \/>\nIs to constantly ask<br \/>\nProbing questions, and to take a stand.<\/p>\n<p>SMOG<\/p>\n<p>A Delhi grandma, in confusion,<br \/>\nLooked around for her eye solution.<br \/>\nHer eyesight was just fine.<br \/>\nThe reason she felt blind<br \/>\nWas, of course, the Delhi pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-21.png\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 21\">the 21st 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\/MUMBAI\/2016\/11\/06\/PagePrint\/06_11_2016_022_8aa79265fc8019a6bbeb6c420589290e.pdf\" title=\"Sunday ToI edit page November 8 -- PDF LINK\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>DISSENT<\/p>\n<p>The greatest danger to any land<br \/>\nIs a government that goes out of hand.<br \/>\nA true patriot&#8217;s task<br \/>\nIs to constantly ask<br \/>\nProbing questions, and to take a stand.<\/p>\n<p>SMOG<\/p>\n<p>A Delhi grandma, in confusion,<br \/>\nLooked around for her eye solution.<br \/>\nHer eyesight was just fine.<br \/>\nThe reason she felt blind<br \/>\nWas, of course, the Delhi pollution.<\/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 v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The True Patriot - 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\/the-true-patriot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The True Patriot - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 21st installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. 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