{"id":1199,"date":"2006-01-25T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1199"},"modified":"2006-01-25T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T15:18:41","slug":"slacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1199","title":{"rendered":"Slacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you were feeling good about your accomplishments, here’s a story of a ten-year old actor who is now directing his first movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll give you an unusually long quote, because this was the part that struck me:<\/p>\n

The film is about the street children who have no other address than the footpaths in India’s big cities.<\/p>\n

“When I was six years old, I saw slum children selling newspapers at a traffic signal and I asked my dad why they are not like us. Why they do not go to schools.<\/p>\n

“My dad said they do not have parents. I felt very bad and thought I must do something for them,” Kishan told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“Then I wrote a short story and read it to my dad who narrated it to his friends as well. It was my dad’s friends who suggested that I should direct the film myself, as I had written the story.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow. The best part is that he actually sounds like a good kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you were feeling good about your accomplishments, here’s a story of a ten-year old actor who is now directing his first movie. I’ll give you an unusually long quote, because this was the part that struck me: The film is about the street children who have no other address than the footpaths in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sefxA-slacker","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}