{"id":494,"date":"2012-08-09T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madmanweb.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2012-08-09T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:53:53","slug":"my-ford-india-road-trip-to-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/2012\/08\/my-ford-india-road-trip-to-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ford India road trip to Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"
Greetings, citizens.<\/p>\n
This blog post is to tell you about a road trip I’m undertaking from 10-15 August, 2012, sponsored by Ford India. Since I’ll probably be posting more than a few tweets about it, I thought it would be a good idea to write a post to give a few more details and to lay down my ethical disclosures.<\/p>\n
So a social media agency that works with Ford India, WATConsult, approached me a month ago and said I was a “top influencer online on food” (if you ignore my numerous wisecracks, of course) and that Ford India had created a campaign to send influencers on many topics on a 5-day road trip in a Ford Classic Titanium car with one tank of fuel to “pursue their passion” along with a film-maker who would shoot this trip and post a video of it after we were done. Of course, being the skeptical kind, my inner voice immediately asked “What’s the catch, yo?” Fortunately, there was no “you have to post tweets about the car” type requirement in the terms and conditions, or I would have refused straight away.<\/p>\n