{"id":3,"date":"2006-06-27T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2020-07-03T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T10:40:08","slug":"welcome-to-talk-of-many-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/welcome-to-talk-of-many-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To &#8220;Talk of Many Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Talk of Many Things&#8221; is my personal blog and views expressed are my own.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Talk of Many Things&#8221;, I shall be writing\u00a0about some of my favorite topics like sales and marketing, technology, globalization amidst cultural differences, gadgets and gizmos,\u00a0the English language, music, books, consumer rights, and so on &#8212;\u00a0a very broad spectrum, as the title suggests.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve borrowed the expression &#8220;Talk of Many Things&#8221; from\u00a0a favorite poem by Lewis Carroll called &#8220;The Walrus and the Carpenter&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time has come,&#8221; the Walrus said,<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong>To talk of many things<\/strong>:<br \/>\nOf shoes&#8211;and ships&#8211;and sealing-wax&#8211;<br \/>\nOf cabbages&#8211;and kings&#8211;<br \/>\nAnd why the sea is boiling hot&#8211;<br \/>\nAnd whether pigs have wings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u00a0enjoy reading Talk of Many Things as much as I enjoy writing it.<\/p>\n<p>Ketharaman Swaminathan\u00a0(Twitter: @s_ketharaman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Talk of Many Things&#8221; is my personal blog and views expressed are my own. In &#8220;Talk of Many Things&#8221;, I shall be writing\u00a0about some of my favorite topics like sales&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}