{"id":4752,"date":"2008-05-28T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2008-05-28T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T18:37:00","slug":"time-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/time-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a death in the family and blogging will be infrequent over the next few days. Until then, three links sent to me by readers to help you through these difficult days:<\/p>\n<p>1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaybombay.org\/survey\/writeup\/ipl.htm\" title=\"The Gaybombay Survey for the Hottest IPL Cricketer\">A Gaybombay survey reveals the hottest players in the IPL<\/a>. When I received Vikram Doctor&#8217;s SMS about it, I tried to guess, through my straight lens, who would top the poll. I was way off: Shane Watson figured low down in the list. Now you guess who won.<\/p>\n<p>2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/education\/article3998970.ece\" title=\"Texting boosts children&#8217;s literacy ;-) -- Jonathan Leake\">Jonathan Leake of <i>The Sunday Times<\/i> explains why &#8220;txting mks u clvr.&#8221;<\/a> Do you think it could be said that txting is the Twenty20 of writing? If so, I guess I&#8217;m Aakash Chopra&#8212;and willfully so. (Link via email from VatsaL.)<\/p>\n<p>3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spapo.com\/s292.html\" title=\"Dam Funny\">And this is just Dam Funny<\/a>. (Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/unjustly.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Mohit\">Mohit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><i>Shabba khair<\/i> now, and take good care of yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a death in the family and blogging will be infrequent over the next few days. Until then, three links sent to me by readers to help you through these difficult days:<\/p>\n<p>1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaybombay.org\/survey\/writeup\/ipl.htm\" title=\"The Gaybombay Survey for the Hottest IPL Cricketer\">A Gaybombay survey reveals the hottest players in the IPL<\/a>. When I received Vikram Doctor&#8217;s SMS about it, I tried to guess, through my straight lens, who would top the poll. I was way off: Shane Watson figured low down in the list. Now you guess who won.<\/p>\n<p>2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/education\/article3998970.ece\" title=\"Texting boosts children&#8217;s literacy ;-) -- Jonathan Leake\">Jonathan Leake of <i>The Sunday Times<\/i> explains why &#8220;txting mks u clvr.&#8221;<\/a> Do you think it could be said that txting is the Twenty20 of writing? If so, I guess I&#8217;m Aakash Chopra&#8212;and willfully so. (Link via email from VatsaL.)<\/p>\n<p>3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spapo.com\/s292.html\" title=\"Dam Funny\">And this is just Dam Funny<\/a>. (Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/unjustly.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Mohit\">Mohit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><i>Shabba khair<\/i> now, and take good care of yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Time Off - 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\/time-off\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Time Off - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s been a death in the family and blogging will be infrequent over the next few days. 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