{"id":895237,"date":"2025-01-13T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=895237"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T05:03:34","slug":"us-woman-loses-job-over-joke-about-indian-uber-drivers-calls-backlash-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/13\/us-woman-loses-job-over-joke-about-indian-uber-drivers-calls-backlash-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"US woman \u2018loses job\u2019 over &#8216;joke&#8217; about Indian Uber drivers, calls backlash &#8216;insane&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Connecticut, US, who goes by Han on X (formerly Twitter), has found herself at the centre of a social media storm after posting what she thought was a harmless joke; the internet strongly disagreed. <\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, Han shared two selfies. The first showed her grinning, while the second looked like someone had just cancelled her favourite pizza order. The caption read: \u201cWhen the Uber says it\u2019s on the way vs when it says it\u2019s an Indian male driver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Connecticut, US, who goes by Han on X (formerly Twitter), has found herself at the centre of a social media storm after posting what she thought was a harmless joke; the internet strongly disagreed. A few days ago, Han shared two selfies. The first showed her grinning, while the second looked like someone had just cancelled her favourite pizza order. The caption read: \u201cWhen the Uber says it\u2019s on the way vs when it says it\u2019s an Indian male driver.\u201d<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895237","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=895237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}