{"id":892765,"date":"2025-01-06T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=892765"},"modified":"2025-01-06T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T02:38:43","slug":"digital-timepass-is-indias-lying-flat-how-boredom-became-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/06\/digital-timepass-is-indias-lying-flat-how-boredom-became-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Digital timepass&#8217; is India&#8217;s &#8216;lying flat&#8217;: How boredom became a business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the quirky world of Indian English, \u201ctimepass\u201d is of relatively recent vintage. Its first known appearance was in a newspaper article from 1982. But like \u201cprepone\u201d \u2014 the opposite of postpone \u2014 the word has gained currency because of its sheer efficiency. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you doing nowadays?\u201d a friend inquires. \u201cTimepass,\u201d comes the reply. The stuff that\u2019s filling up one\u2019s day is really of no importance; it\u2019s just helping pass the hours. The friend will know better than to probe any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the quirky world of Indian English, \u201ctimepass\u201d is of relatively recent vintage. Its first known appearance was in a newspaper article from 1982. But like \u201cprepone\u201d \u2014 the opposite of postpone \u2014 the word has gained currency because of its sheer efficiency. \u201cWhat are you doing nowadays?\u201d a friend inquires. \u201cTimepass,\u201d comes the reply. The stuff that\u2019s filling up one\u2019s day is really of no importance; it\u2019s just helping pass the hours. The friend will know better than to probe any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}