{"id":39493,"date":"2004-05-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/05\/05\/dead-man-running\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T07:00:00","slug":"dead-man-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040505-00\/?p=39493","title":{"rendered":"Dead man running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of the legally dead (but physically alive) in India  has been taken up by &#8211; of course &#8211; a legally dead man.  And now  <a href=\"http:\/\/ww.smashits.com\/index.cfm?Page=Video&amp;SubPage=STFSnoopView&amp;BBID=1236\">  he&#8217;s running for public office<\/a>.  Though apparently  <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/586927.cms\">  this isn&#8217;t the first time<\/a>.\n  (People are usually declared dead by conniving relatives  who want to claim their inheritance prematurely.)<\/p>\n<p>  I wish him luck.  If  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2000\/ALLPOLITICS\/stories\/11\/07\/senate.missouri\/\">  it works in Missouri<\/a>  it can work in India.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of the legally dead (but physically alive) in India has been taken up by &#8211; of course &#8211; a legally dead man. And now he&#8217;s running for public office. Though apparently this isn&#8217;t the first time. (People are usually declared dead by conniving relatives who want to claim their inheritance prematurely.) I wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-39493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The plight of the legally dead (but physically alive) in India has been taken up by &#8211; of course &#8211; a legally dead man. And now he&#8217;s running for public office. Though apparently this isn&#8217;t the first time. (People are usually declared dead by conniving relatives who want to claim their inheritance prematurely.) I wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}