{"id":2722,"date":"2020-06-24T21:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2020-06-24T21:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:16:23","slug":"one-tamillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/06\/24\/one-tamillion\/","title":{"rendered":"One Tamillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Health secretary in a briefing to his Political Boss: &#8220;Sir, in Chennai, India 36 Tamillians have been killed due to Corona Virus&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political Boss is silent. His lips quiver. His hands shiver. His eyes wells up. He is unable to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health secretary is stunned. He never imagined that this event could affect him so badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a few minutes, in a trembling voice, Political Boss asks &#8220;So, how many millions are there in one tamillion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Health secretary in a briefing to his Political Boss: &#8220;Sir, in Chennai, India 36 Tamillians have been killed due to Corona Virus&#8221; Political Boss is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2],"tags":[572,140,245,806],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-a-smile","category-english","tag-english-article","tag-joke","tag-just-for-fun","tag-tamil-joke"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}