{"id":622,"date":"2013-01-19T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2013-01-19T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:11:33","slug":"celebrate-austen-with-dwl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/celebrate-austen-with-dwl\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Austen with DWL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 2013 is the 200th anniversary of one of English literature&#8217;s greatest social satires: &#8216;Pride and Prejudice&#8217; by Jane Austen. To mark the occasion, Desi Writers Lounge is running a blog contest. <strong>What&#8217;s the funniest true story you&#8217;ve got about people getting married?<\/strong> It could be your own story or someone else&#8217;s. Botched proposals, unreal rishtas, failed elopements, family feuds, last minute changes of heart &#8211; we want to hear it all.\u00a0Wit and style will be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>Send your entries of\u00a0<strong>500<\/strong><strong>\u00a0words\u00a0or less\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0<strong>editor.papercuts@desiwriterslounge.net<\/strong>.\u00a0The best entries will get published on the DWL blog (that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re reading right now) and the winning entry will also receive a copy of the funniest new book in town about arranged marriage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinbooksindia.com\/en\/content\/how-it-happened\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How It Happened<\/em><\/a> by Shazaf Fatima Haider (Penguin India). Deadline: <strong>29th January<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Time to get funny, peeps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2013 is the 200th anniversary of one of English literature&#8217;s greatest social satires: &#8216;Pride and Prejudice&#8217; by Jane Austen. To mark the occasion, Desi Writers Lounge is running a blog contest. What&#8217;s the funniest true story you&#8217;ve got about people getting married? It could be your own story or someone else&#8217;s. Botched proposals, unreal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}