{"id":3596,"date":"2016-07-10T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2016-07-10T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T02:35:30","slug":"the-impresario-and-the-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-impresario-and-the-intellectual\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impresario and the Intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-8.png\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"The Impresario and the Intellectual\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 6\">the 8th 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> edit page<\/i><\/p>\n<p>IMPRESARIO<\/p>\n<p>There was a man with a giant belly<br \/>\nWho sat all day glued to his telly.<br \/>\nThen he died. He was gone,<br \/>\nBut the belly lived on.<br \/>\nNow it throws great parties in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>\nINTELLECTUAL<\/p>\n<p>There was a man with a giant head<br \/>\nWho told us where the future led.<br \/>\nHis brain was so loaded, <br \/>\nOne day it exploded<br \/>\nAnd now he&#8217;s confined to his bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-8.png\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 6\">the 8th 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> edit page<\/i><\/p>\n<p>IMPRESARIO<\/p>\n<p>There was a man with a giant belly<br \/>\nWho sat all day glued to his telly.<br \/>\nThen he died. He was gone,<br \/>\nBut the belly lived on.<br \/>\nNow it throws great parties in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>\nINTELLECTUAL<\/p>\n<p>There was a man with a giant head<br \/>\nWho told us where the future led.<br \/>\nHis brain was so loaded, <br \/>\nOne day it exploded<br \/>\nAnd now he&#8217;s confined to his bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Impresario and the Intellectual - 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-impresario-and-the-intellectual\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Impresario and the Intellectual - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 8th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page IMPRESARIO There was a man with a giant belly Who sat all day glued to his telly. 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