{"id":35994,"date":"2020-01-25T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=35994"},"modified":"2020-01-25T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:50:11","slug":"january-25-2020-ghosts-of-indias-past-along-the-road-to-agra-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=35994","title":{"rendered":"January 25, 2020 &#8211; Ghosts of India&#8217;s Past Along the Road to Agra (Teaser)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside the stepwell used to film the pit prison in <em>The Dark Knight Rises <\/em>(more on that when I have a better internet connection), we came across the small temple that our driver recommended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_121236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_121236-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_121236-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_121236-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_121236-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_121236-660x495.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_121236-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120253-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120253-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120253-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120253-660x880.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120253-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The temple docent put a Tikka mark on me and wished me good luck \u2013 which is probably a good thing as I can use all I can get at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120910.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120910-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120910-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120910-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120910-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120910-660x495.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200125_120910-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, I wasn\u2019t sure how long to leave the red dot on my forehead. It felt oddly improper for me to be wearing it, like a baseball cap or plaid. None of these things seem to work on me.\u00a0 Though, to be fair, I&#8217;m not sure what does work on me.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m an autumn.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, somewhere on the road to Agra, I used a napkin to wipe the Tikka off&#8230; and proceeded to smear it along my forehead.\u00a0 I now look like a six year old whose adopted aunt kissed him on the forehead and he tried to wipe it off with his coat sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>Consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Karma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside the stepwell used to film the pit prison in The Dark Knight Rises (more on that when I have a better internet connection), we came across the small temple that our driver recommended. The temple docent put a Tikka mark on me and wished me good luck \u2013 which is probably a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}