{"id":56401,"date":"2019-03-04T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56401"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:24:24","slug":"indian-parents-more-open-to-alternative-careers-tendulkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indian-parents-more-open-to-alternative-careers-tendulkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian parents more open to alternative careers Tendulkar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian parents are now more open-minded and allow their wards the liberty to pursue alternative careers in dance, culinary arts and not just the hackneyed medicine and engineering, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing reporters on the sidelines of an off-roading event, BadRoadBuddies, organised by Apollo Tyres in South Goa&#8217;s Quepem village, the Bharat Ratna awardee said his vision was to transform India from a sports-loving to a sports-playing nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Parents are open-minded now. You have so many celebrated chefs and professional dancers. India is slowly, slowly changing. And it&#8217;s all about giving them opportunity at the right time and platform,&#8221; Tendulkar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As far as our country is concerned, today the choice is not just confined to whether you want to be a doctor or an engineer,&#8221; he said.Underlining the importance of fitness, Tendulkar said it was key and when it came to maintaining one&#8217;s health, there was always scope for improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Let us all get fitter and healthier. I know we all like to feel fit. But the statistics, the number, don&#8217;t say so. There is plenty of improvement. That is the message I want to give to everyone,&#8221; he said.The record-setting cricketer said his vision was to get more Indian to actually play sports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian parents are now more open-minded and allow their wards the liberty to pursue alternative careers in dance, culinary arts and not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56403,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56401\/revisions\/56403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}