{"id":2542,"date":"2005-11-17T21:14:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2542"},"modified":"2005-11-20T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T13:53:55","slug":"office_space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/office_space\/","title":{"rendered":"Omi do play that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bharatstars.com\/GetPics.php?DocID=5298&#038;PicID=1\"><img class=picture hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/OmiVaidyaTheOffice_new.jpg\" border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bharatstars.com\/\"><img class=picture height=150 hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/OmiVaidya_new_changed.jpg\" width=128 align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Watch Omi Vaidya rockin&#8217; the pug in the American version of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=X&#038;revid=1303948748&#038;qpos=0&#038;upos=0&#038;oi=revisions_inline&#038;q=http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_Office\/\">The Office<\/a> <\/em>airing Nov. 22 (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodmasala.com\">Kiran<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>He plays a Sikh IT Tech that helps Steve Carell&#8217;s character with some computer issues. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodmasala.com\/forums\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4198\">Link<\/a>] \n<p><\/p>\n<p>A bunch of us auditioned for this role. It started out as a &#8220;Pakistani IT Tech&#8221; wearing a turban. They seemed to get some of the culture right, but the joke centers around Steve Carell&#8217;s character wearing a giant &#8220;Karnak&#8221; type turban. [via email]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Vaidya previously created the reality dating show &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000444.html\">Prem or Not to Prem<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Omi Vaidya rockin&#8217; the pug in the American version of The Office airing Nov. 22 (thanks, Kiran): He plays a Sikh IT Tech that helps Steve Carell&#8217;s character with some computer issues. [Link] A bunch of us auditioned for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/office_space\/\">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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542"}],"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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}