{"id":5459,"date":"2007-06-22T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2007-06-22T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:20:00","slug":"show-me-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/show-me-the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Show me the tree!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First there was the whole saga about <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/aishwarya-rai-to-marry-tree.html\" title=\"Aishwarya Rai to marry tree\">Aishwarya Rai marrying a tree<\/a>. Then, recently, <a href=\"\/headline-of-the-day-aishwarya-rai\/\" title=\"Headline of the Day\">a denial<\/a> from Aishwarya. Well, now Amitabh Bachchan himself <a href=\"http:\/\/specials.rediff.com\/movies\/2007\/jun\/21slide2.htm\" title=\"Ash is not married to a tree\">has spoken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ash is not married to a tree! [&#8230;] It&#8217;s a challenge&#8212;please show me the tree she married! Bring that person who married her to the tree. Where did it happen?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm. Perhaps they&#8217;ve killed off the tree and buried it. Or maybe they&#8217;ve kidnapped its saplings and warned the tree to deny everything or else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we should just take Mr Bachchan at his word. But why, I wonder, would so many people report the matter if there wasn&#8217;t something to it? Still, that&#8217;s our media&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/arjununplugged.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Arjun Swarup\">Arjun Swarup<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First there was the whole saga about <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/aishwarya-rai-to-marry-tree.html\" title=\"Aishwarya Rai to marry tree\">Aishwarya Rai marrying a tree<\/a>. Then, recently, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/headline-of-the-day-aishwarya-rai\/\" title=\"Headline of the Day\">a denial<\/a> from Aishwarya. Well, now Amitabh Bachchan himself <a href=\"http:\/\/specials.rediff.com\/movies\/2007\/jun\/21slide2.htm\" title=\"Ash is not married to a tree\">has spoken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ash is not married to a tree! [&#8230;] It&#8217;s a challenge&#8212;please show me the tree she married! Bring that person who married her to the tree. Where did it happen?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm. Perhaps they&#8217;ve killed off the tree and buried it. Or maybe they&#8217;ve kidnapped its saplings and warned the tree to deny everything or else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we should just take Mr Bachchan at his word. But why, I wonder, would so many people report the matter if there wasn&#8217;t something to it? Still, that&#8217;s our media&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/arjununplugged.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Arjun Swarup\">Arjun Swarup<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,14,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Show me the tree! - 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\/show-me-the-tree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Show me the tree! - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First there was the whole saga about Aishwarya Rai marrying a tree. 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