{"id":3752,"date":"2019-12-06T00:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2019-12-06T00:10:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:10:42","slug":"names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/12\/06\/names\/","title":{"rendered":"Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Mihir let us call our daughter Roja or else Shahad?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I am now being dragged by my hair through the courtyard, then the terracotta floor of hanuman mandir, the broken scalps of which kept poking my menstrual pad. Crying hysterically, I pleaded &#8220;Only Hindu names from now. No Muslim.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Nani, plastering dung cakes for the winter, Raja beta biting nails in anticipation, and Mantu my sister-in-law licking her middle finger out of the pickle jar as Mihir unburdened his hands off my hair with a thundering jolt of Indra. <\/p>\n<p>Later, men smoking bidi took my bleeding body to Shamshan Ghat. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Noya Nirriti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mihir let us call our daughter Roja or else Shahad?&#8221; I am now being dragged by my hair through the courtyard, then the terracotta floor of hanuman mandir, the broken scalps of which kept poking my menstrual pad. Crying hysterically, I pleaded &#8220;Only Hindu names from now. No Muslim.\u201d Nani, plastering dung cakes for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8421,1677,8413,1352,8418,3309,41,1291,7597,5522,8415,3751,8417,3912,6891,8412,8420,8414,8422,8419,8416,731],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bidi","tag-body","tag-courtyard","tag-daughter","tag-dung-cakes","tag-floor","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-hindu","tag-jolt","tag-menstrual-pad","tag-middle-finger","tag-muslim","tag-nails","tag-names","tag-noya-nirriti","tag-pickle-jar","tag-scalps","tag-shamshan-ghat","tag-sister-in-law","tag-terracotta","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}