{"id":426141,"date":"2021-07-15T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=426141"},"modified":"2021-07-15T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:25:32","slug":"a-flight-to-remember-dayanidhi-maran-says-honoured-to-be-flown-by-captain-rajiv-pratap-rudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-flight-to-remember-dayanidhi-maran-says-honoured-to-be-flown-by-captain-rajiv-pratap-rudy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A flight to remember\u2019: Dayanidhi Maran says honoured to be flown by Captain Rajiv Pratap Rudy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran was in for a surprise on Tuesday as he boarded an IndiGo aircraft to make his way home to Chennai from New Delhi. As he took his seat in the first row, the captain asked him: \u201cSo, you are travelling in this flight as well!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unable to recognise the captain, who wore a mask, Maran nodded with a puzzled expression on his face. \u201cSo you don\u2019t recognise me!\u201d the captain exclaimed in a familiar voice.<\/p>\n<p>But the smile behind the mask soon gave him away. \u201cI realised then that it was none other than my colleague, senior member of Parliament and former Union minister \u2013 my very good friend Thiru Rajiv Pratap Rudy,\u201d Maran said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran was in for a surprise on Tuesday as he boarded an IndiGo aircraft to make his way home to Chennai from New Delhi. As he took his seat in the first row, the captain asked him: \u201cSo, you are travelling in this flight as well!\u201d Unable to recognise the captain, who wore a mask, Maran nodded with a puzzled expression on his face. \u201cSo you don\u2019t recognise me!\u201d the captain exclaimed in a familiar voice. But the smile behind the mask soon gave him away. \u201cI realised then that it was none other than my colleague, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}