{"id":11156,"date":"2015-07-31T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=11156"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T10:20:38","slug":"if-it-werent-for-her-the-100sareepact-would-never-have-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=11156","title":{"rendered":"If it weren&#8217;t for her, the #100sareepact would never have happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it weren&#8217;t for her, the #100sareepact would never have happened. She had heard me say several times last year, and the beginning of this year, that I wanted to start wearing the sarees I had, more often. First patiently, then impatiently, she&#8217;d remind me of my intention.<\/p>\n<p>Till she got tired of my talk and posted a photo of Neena Gupta, the actress, on my Facebook wall. Neena wore a burnt orange saree, a blue blouse and a big bindi in that photo. And kusum wrote &#8211; &#8221; you&#8217;d totally rock this look. When are you starting to wear your sarees ? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at my computer screen when the phone rang, it was Ally calling. I told her I really needed to start walking the talk and the pact was born between us to wear sarees one hundred times this year.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Kusum Rohra, the catalyst that made the #100sareepact happen.<\/p>\n<p>Former techy, now entrepreneur, mad hatter, good friend, risk taker, sees things through to the end, starting her second store on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A few of us went to help her set it up and look at all the lovely stock that she has sourced for the store.<\/p>\n<p>Kusum, it&#8217;s my turn to say it. You &amp; Gauri Syal are gonna totally rock Indiranagar.<\/p>\n<p>Saree #66 #100sareepact an old cotton saree, one of my favourite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it weren&#8217;t for her, the #100sareepact would never have happened. She had heard me say several times last year, and the beginning of this year, that I wanted to start wearing the sarees I had, more often. First patiently, then impatiently, she&#8217;d remind me of my intention. Till she got tired of my talk&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=11156\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[168],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}