{"id":1576,"date":"2005-05-17T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T00:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1576"},"modified":"2005-05-17T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T02:41:58","slug":"other_commencem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/other_commencem\/","title":{"rendered":"Other commencement speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SM reader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001569.html#comment10868\">Manoj<\/a> directed us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.february-7.com\/features\/conan.htm\">Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s 2000 Harvard Commencement Speech<\/a>. There are two desi references right up front.\nFirst Paragraph:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>I&#8217;d like to announce up front that I have one goal this afternoon: to be half as funny as tomorrow&#8217;s Commencement Speaker, Moral Philosopher and Economist, Amartya Sen. Must get more laughs than seminal wage\/price theoretician.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Second Paragraph:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>I especially miss Harvard Square &#8211; it&#8217;s so unique. No where else in the world will you find a man with a turban wearing a Red Sox jacket and working in a lesbian bookstore. Hey, I&#8217;m just glad my dad&#8217;s working.<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SM reader Manoj directed us to Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s 2000 Harvard Commencement Speech. There are two desi references right up front. First Paragraph: I&#8217;d like to announce up front that I have one goal this afternoon: to be half as funny &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/other_commencem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}