{"id":1295,"date":"2005-04-04T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1295"},"modified":"2005-04-04T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T18:54:16","slug":"steven_tyler_wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/steven_tyler_wr\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Tyler wrote a song about this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The last time I asked&nbsp;Ennis how his personal lowe story was going, he just looked at me woefully and shook his head. Thanks to <EM>Eastern Eye,<\/EM> I&#8217;ve now <A href=\"http:\/\/www.easterneyeuk.co.uk\/iframe_story.asp?NID=1424\">figured out what happened<\/A>:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Ravi Arora, 39, from east London, flew 5,000 miles [to Delhi] to meet a potential bride he had met through shaadi.com&#8230; only to find out that she was not born a woman&#8230; &#8220;I was in front of a girl who no longer looked like one and sounded very different from the Manisha I had been spending two to three hours every week speaking to&#8230; The photos were of her cousin, the phone calls had been made by her sister and she had been operated on to become a woman.&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>Lest we think Arora is prejudiced, he hastens to add:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>&#8220;She has a right to express her sexuality as she wants, but by lying about herself, a seed of doubt about all the other profiles on shaadi.com have been placed in my mind.&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s harder to believe: Arora&#8217;s incredible story, or that he actually trusted the profiles on dating sites.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I asked&nbsp;Ennis how his personal lowe story was going, he just looked at me woefully and shook his head. Thanks to Eastern Eye, I&#8217;ve now figured out what happened: Ravi Arora, 39, from east London, flew 5,000 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/steven_tyler_wr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}