{"id":11985,"date":"2015-08-25T05:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T05:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=11985"},"modified":"2015-08-25T05:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T05:53:03","slug":"an-august-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=11985","title":{"rendered":"An August Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I have been thinking of joining the pact, and the usual apprehensions kept coming in the way. I followed the posts, getting tempted by the lovely drapes and inspiring stories, at times surprised to see a familiar name pop up on the pact. Finally gave in to my love of sarees and brushed those apprehensions aside \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nSo here it is, my first and very spontaneous entry. Had an important business meeting this morning and reached out for the predictable blazer. Then I paused and went to the saree part of my wardrobe where I found myself reaching for this orange printed silk saree, bought more than 20 years back.  I was already running late, and this saree was perfect. Just takes 5 mins to drape, stays well through the day, and needs minimal accessories. Loved the moment when I walked into the meeting in brilliant orange among the black and grey business suits \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I have been thinking of joining the pact, and the usual apprehensions kept coming in the way. I followed the posts, getting tempted by the lovely drapes and inspiring stories, at times surprised to see a familiar name pop up on the pact. Finally gave in to my love of sarees&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=11985\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[229],"tags":[322,1991],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985"}],"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=11985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12120,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions\/12120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}