{"id":2448,"date":"2009-05-03T21:54:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T04:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2009-05-15T06:02:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T13:02:23","slug":"live-from-bangalore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/03\/live-from-bangalore\/","title":{"rendered":"Live From Bangalore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/05\/bengaluru-palace.jpg\" alt=\"The Palace in Bangalore\" width=333 \/><\/div>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m working from Bangalore this week. I&#8217;m beginning to think I have some special super-power with respect to this trip. The first time I came here for this job, there were bombings in Bangalore the week before. The second time I came here for this job, it was the week after the Mumbai attacks. Now, it&#8217;s the Swine Flu! Want a catastrophe, ask when my next India trip is planned, we&#8217;ll know to take shelter the week before. Just fooling&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith regard to the Swine Flu, it is making things interesting. Everyone in Hong Kong was wearing a mask, the plane arriving into India was sprayed with some anti-viral solution before landing (which made me cough.) And before approaching immigration in India, a medical pre-screen was setup.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI was expecting to have my temperature, blood pressure, and blood taken, but that wasn&#8217;t the case. Instead, they had me fill out an extra form, asked if I was feeling ill (I said no, but how the heck do you really know if you don&#8217;t feel well or it&#8217;s simply the rigors of travel &#8211; after a few hours sleep, I know I told the truth, I&#8217;m fine.) I&#8217;ve now made it to the office and am starting the work week, should be fun.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd no, that&#8217;s not the office in the photo above, that&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangalore_Palace\" target=\"_blank\" >Bangalore Palace<\/a>, I place I had the chance to visit last year.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m working from Bangalore this week. I&#8217;m beginning to think I have some special super-power with respect to this trip. The first time I came here for this job, there were bombings in Bangalore the week before. The second time I came here for this job, it was the week after the Mumbai attacks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[458,831,113,830],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}