{"id":103887,"date":"2017-08-15T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=103887"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:15:50","slug":"modis-short-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/modis-short-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Modis short speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised an Independence Day speech under 50 minutes this year. He went just over at 54 minutes. Today&#8217;s address to the nation from the Red Fort was the Prime Minister&#8217;s shortest so far in the last four years.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103888 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/15brk47a.jpg\" alt=\" Modis short speech \" width=\"572\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During last month&#8217;s Mann Ki Baat &#8212; his radio programme &#8211; PM Modi had said he had received letters from people complaining that his Independence Day speeches were &#8220;a little too long&#8221;. He had then promised to make a shorter speech.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103889 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20770147_1397638080326048_166865738159897615_n.jpg\" alt=\"Modis short speech \" width=\"587\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20770147_1397638080326048_166865738159897615_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20770147_1397638080326048_166865738159897615_n-768x386.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 54 minutes, PM Modi&#8217;s address today was the shortest by far since his first speech from the Red Fort in 2014; his Independence Day addresses had been getting longer by the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Modi had spoken for 94 minutes last year, 86 minutes in 2015 and 65 minutes in 2014. He had asked people to send in suggestions for this year&#8217;s speech and he received more than 8000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised an Independence Day speech under 50 minutes this year. He went just over at 54 minutes. Today&#8217;s address to the nation from the Red Fort was the Prime Minister&#8217;s shortest so far in the last four years. During last month&#8217;s Mann Ki Baat &#8212; his radio programme &#8211; PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[52079,94,992,246],"class_list":["post-103887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-modis-short-speech","tag-narendra-modi","tag-pm","tag-pm-modi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}