{"id":145737,"date":"2026-03-10T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=145737"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:12:07","slug":"oh-this-was-the-plan-mindy-kaling-reflects-on-alternative-paths-leading-to-successful-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/10\/oh-this-was-the-plan-mindy-kaling-reflects-on-alternative-paths-leading-to-successful-career\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Oh, This Was the Plan’: Mindy Kaling Reflects on Alternative Paths Leading to Successful Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even with the most well-intentioned plans, her career did not necessarily follow that route. But, Kaling said her confidence and willingness to adapt to her environment led to the beginning of her career, even if it was an “off-off-Broadway” play in Chinatown.<\/p>\n

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Even with the most well-intentioned plans, her career did not necessarily follow that route. But, Kaling said her confidence and willingness to adapt to her environment led to the beginning of her career, even if it was an “off-off-Broadway” play in Chinatown.<\/p>\n

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Even with the most well-intentioned plans, her career did not necessarily follow that route. But, Kaling said her confidence and willingness to adapt to her environment led to the beginning of her career, even if it was an “off-off-Broadway” play in Chinatown. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even with the most well-intentioned plans, her career did not necessarily follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/legal-news-9iBV8E.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145743,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145737\/revisions\/145743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}