{"id":1969,"date":"2005-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1969"},"modified":"2005-08-08T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T16:49:42","slug":"freedom_at_midn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/freedom_at_midn\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom at midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Long years ago I thought&nbsp;a &#8216;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000206.html\">Tryst with Destiny<\/A>&#8216; meant hooking up with a stripper.<\/P>\n<P>Long years ago <A href=\"http:\/\/www.vinod.com\/blog\">Vinod<\/A> thought &#8216;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/faq.html\">desi<\/A>&#8216; was followed by &#8216;<A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desi_Arnaz_Jr.\">Arnaz<\/A>.&#8217;<\/P>\n<P>Long years ago <A href=\"http:\/\/anna.typepad.com\/herstory\">Anna<\/A> thought <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001218.html\">Karsh Kale<\/A>&nbsp;was a kind of <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kale\">cabbage<\/A>.<\/P>\n<P>Long years ago <A href=\"http:\/\/tripathi.blogspot.com\/\">Abhi<\/A> thought <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalpana_Chawla\">Kalpana Chawla<\/A> was a variety of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.syvum.com\/cgi\/online\/serve.cgi\/recipes\/srcpr2.tdf?0\">rice<\/A>.<\/P>\n<P>Long years ago <A href=\"http:\/\/desiblogs.blogspot.com\/\">Sajit<\/A> thought <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001766.html\">the Dum Dum Project<\/A> was an insane asylum.<\/P>\n<P>Long years ago <A href=\"http:\/\/www.triptronix.net\/ishbadiddle\/author_archive.php?author=Ennis\">Ennis<\/A> sprang full-grown from his mother&#8217;s forehead quoting <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gayatri_Spivak\">Gayatri Spivak<\/A>. Well, shit, he&#8217;s freakishly bright and messes up the curve like that.<\/P>\n<P>In the last year, our scary-smart readers have corrected all those misconceptions and are poised to correct a million more. Once, S\/He Who Must Not Be Named confided to me that s\/he wanted more comments for his\/her posts. &#8216;Comments?&#8217; says I. &#8216;You want <EM>comments?<\/EM> Post something that&#8217;s flat-out wrong. You&#8217;ll have 47 comments correcting the error, 47 calling you a commie and 47 calling you a fascist by the time the post button springs back into position.&#8217;<\/P>\n<P>So on this <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001968.html\">first anniversary<\/A> of the Mutiny, I&#8217;d like to confess our little scam. You <EM>thought<\/EM> we were writing for your edification (and masturbatory coffee breaks &#8212; we know how you use the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000292.html\">WiFi<\/A>.) Suckas! In reality, y&#8217;all have been educating <EM>us.<\/EM><\/P>\n<P>Collectively, you guys are some smart mofos. Can I just say? You rock.<\/P>\n<DIV style=\"FONT-SIZE: 28pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 30%\">\n<CENTER>\u00c2\u00b7&nbsp;\u00c2\u00b7&nbsp;\u00c2\u00b7&nbsp;\u00c2\u00b7&nbsp;\u00c2\u00b7<\/CENTER><\/DIV>\n<P><SPAN style=\"PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BACKGROUND: #dddddd; FLOAT: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT: 22pt bold; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\">I&#8217;<\/SPAN>ve also taken the liberty of penning my hopes and dreams for Sepia Mutiny&#8217;s impact on second-gen culturistas. It&#8217;s a weighty political manifesto, so be sure and sit down while you read. Here it is:<\/P>\n<CENTER><A href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywood.com\/celebs\/detail\/celeb\/1124405\"><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/SMMotto.gif\" align=baseline border=0><\/A><\/CENTER><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long years ago I thought&nbsp;a &#8216;Tryst with Destiny&#8216; meant hooking up with a stripper. Long years ago Vinod thought &#8216;desi&#8216; was followed by &#8216;Arnaz.&#8217; Long years ago Anna thought Karsh Kale&nbsp;was a kind of cabbage. Long years ago Abhi thought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/freedom_at_midn\/\">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":[27,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"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=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}