{"id":313,"date":"2018-02-02T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2018-02-02T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:19:42","slug":"generation-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/generation-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Text!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had enough (considerate) people taking me for a ride, and since change, as they say is the only constant, decided to take myself for a ride.I thought it would be appropriately urban of me to add to the ridership of the Metro.<\/p>\n<p>The train was crowded but I was lucky to get a seat. It didn&#8217;t take me too long to realise that I was the only person in the compartment reading a book rather than starting at a device and a small screen- a striking singularity that should have provide<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">d enough material evidence about where I fit in demographically these days..but then, I have always tempted fate!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>The teenager sitting opposite me was texting away furiously with blinding speed(now I know the typos and the passionate need for being grammatically incorrect).Probably he had a train to catch??<\/p>\n<p>Autumn had made its seasonal fall but with an unusual warmth- so a lot of people in the compartment wore half sleeves- and it didn&#8217;t take too long for me to realise that most of them didn&#8217;t wear a wristwatch. In a digitell (or digital) era, I suppose, analogue watches and clocks are no longer part of the dialogue. So the next time you instruct your millennial kid &#8216; turn it clockwise or anti clockwise &#8216;, you will know exactly why wiser counsel may have to prevail. So watch it!<\/p>\n<p>As I disembarked on reaching downtown, what I was not up for was to think &#8216; Are we riders of the lost arc? &#8216; Time will tell..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>www.brandknewmag.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>www.groupisd.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had enough (considerate) people taking me for a ride, and since change, as they say is the only constant, decided to take myself for a ride.I thought it would be appropriately urban of me to add to the ridership of the Metro. 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