{"id":129,"date":"2010-09-27T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/apps\/wp\/?p=129"},"modified":"2010-09-27T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:10:00","slug":"an-ingenious-example-of-speech-and-politics-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"An ingenious example of speech and politics at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGot the following in an email &#8230;. An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly that made the world community smile.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A representative from India began:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Rishi Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is named.<\/p>\n<p>When he struck a rock and it brought forth water, he thought,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What a good opportunity to have a bath.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water.<\/p>\n<p>When he got out and wanted to dress,his clothes had vanished. A Pakistani had stolen them.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani representative jumped up furiously and shouted,  &#8220;What are you talking about? The Pakistanis weren&#8217;t there then&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian smiled and said,<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech saying that Kashmir has been an integral part of India all along.&#8221;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the following in an email &#8230;. An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly that made the world community smile. A representative from India began: &#8216;Before beginning my&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=129\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}