{"id":77,"date":"2005-12-14T18:06:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2005\/12\/14\/indian-political-brain-too-good-to-resist\/"},"modified":"2005-12-14T18:07:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T12:37:42","slug":"indian-political-brain-too-good-to-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2005\/12\/14\/indian-political-brain-too-good-to-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Political brain &#8211; too good to resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NASA was interviewing professionals they were thinking of sending to Mars<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe touchy part was that only one guy could go and it would be a one-way trip, the guy not ever returning to Earth. <\/p>\n<p>The interviewer asked the first applicant, an <strong>American engineer<\/strong>, how much he wanted to be paid for going. <em>&#8220;One million dollars,&#8221; the engineer answered. &#8220;And I want to donate it all to my alma mater-Rice University.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next applicant was a <strong>Russian doctor,<\/strong> and the interviewer asked him the same question. <em>&#8220;Two millions dollars,&#8221; the doctor said. &#8220;I want to give a million to my family and leave the other million for the advancement of medical research.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last applicant was an <strong>Indian Politician<\/strong>. When asked how much money he wanted, he whispered in the interviewer&#8217;s ear, &#8220;Three million dollars.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Why so much more than the others?&#8221; the interviewer asked.<br \/>\n<strong>The Indian Politician replied, <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;You give me three million,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll give you one million,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll keep a million and<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll send the American engineer.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA was interviewing professionals they were thinking of sending to Mars. The touchy part was that only one guy could go and it would be a one-way trip, the guy not ever returning to Earth. The interviewer asked the first applicant, an American engineer, how much he wanted to be paid for going. &#8220;One million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fun","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}